Women as Victims of War in Homer’s Oral Poetics

The article presents the problem of the empathy felt by the author or authors of the Iliad and Odyssey towards women depicted as victims of war. Understanding of the world in the Homeric poems may be misinterpreted today. Since Homer’s works are a product of oral culture, in order to determine his intentions, it is necessary to look at them from the perspective of the tradition from which they derive. Furthermore, the author of an oral work can be deemed as creative because s/he shapes his/her story through interaction with the listening audience. The different aspects of the relationship of women as victims of war with their oppressors are, therefore, interpreted according to the use of traditional techniques adopted to evoke specific emotions in the audience

Active listening · Aesthetics · Art · Empathy · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Visual arts · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Psychology · Social Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis

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