Појам ἔσχατος код Хомера
The term ἔσχατος in Homer

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a part of a wider historical-philological research that deals with the origin and historical development of the content and semantic values of terms that came from the Greek pre-Christian world, ritual or oth- erwise, into the vocabulary of the theological profession with its diachronic conceptual thread. The paper presents and discusses the use of the term ἔσχατος in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, in which the word has spatial meaning to indicate the uttermost distance. After presenting basic linguistic and etymological data about the word, fourteen representative fragments are shown (seven in the Iliad, seven in the Odyssey), classified by the extent of the space to which the term refers, in descending order. One of the main goals of the paper is to define the quality of the remote space expressed by the term ἔσχατος, in contrast to others that effectively describe the same term, in order to distinguish the basic features of the term's semantic character. The study is conducted by descriptive, comparative, contrasitive and analogical methods.

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