Shaping the Goddess’ Image: The Role of Epithets in the Homeric Hymn to Gaia
Shaping the Goddess’ Image: The Role of Epithets in the Homeric Hymn to Gaia

Summary/Abstract: The article considers the poetical function of epithets in the short Homeric hymn “to Gaia (XXX)”. The primary objective was to determine whether epithets could convey a deity’s image within the span of a brief narrative, since, as is often the case, Homeric hymns, owing to their brevity, do not contain a protracted mythological story. Furthemore, the article examined images of the goddess Gaia in the Greek literary tradition after Homer and Hesiod.

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