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A characteristic of Homer's style is the use of epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" dawn or "swift-footed" Achilles. These epithets were metric stop-gaps as well as mnemonic devices for the aoidos (sing...
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An epithet (from Greek ἐπίθετον - epitheton , neut. of ἐπίθετος - epithetos , "attributed, added") is a descriptive word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person ...
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Examples and Observations: ... Using an appropriate adjective (often habitually) to characterize a person or thing. Adjective: epithetic. See also: ... "Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness."; (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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The epithets are largely taken from alpine plants and found in the seed lists of the North American Rock Garden Society's seed list, alpine plant nursery catalogs and alpine references.
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Odysseus told me that I must tell you mortals about epithets. (O, how I wished Athena had done this) I will tell you what an epithet is straight from the book you mortals call, "dikshionari". It says..
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Dealing in the dark fascination we have with death and dying ... Tombstones Engravings of the famous ... The mortal remains of Ethan Allen, fighter, writer, statesman, and philosopher, lie in this cemetery beneath the marble statue. His spirit is in Vermont now. Ethan Allen ; (Greenmount Cemetery; Burlington, Vermont)
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Homer used certain epithets so regularly that they became a standard part of the name of the thing or person described, as in "rosy-fingered Dawn" and "gray-eyed Athena." The device was used by many later poets, including John Keats in his sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer": Oft of one wide expanse had I...
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For instance, in Homer's Odyssey (eighth century B.C.) the hero is typically referred to by the epithets "enduring," "resourceful," or "sacker of cities"; and the sea is always "wine-dark."
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For each group there are listed 4 titles or epithets of a Greek god. Each title is listed with the locale where the title was used and the reference in Pausanias’ text where the title is discussed.
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Epithets are common epic elements which allow the reader to easily identify the character or object. Epithets stress a quality of what they are describing. The same character often is given several different epithets.
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