Three Short Essays on Demodocus’s Song of Ares and Aphrodite (Odyssey 8.266–369)

First essay: Does an audience, ancient or modern, find Demodocus’s second song humorous? This much-discussed question can be replaced with another. What is the humor that the internal Olympian audience finds? Hephaestus averts potential derision of himself and turns laughter against Ares and Aphrodite, with Poseidon’s help ultimately winning the day. Second essay: Demodocus’s song is not his, i.e., the poet’s, invention but a re-told story recognized by his audience as such. Third essay: I analyze the particular form of the condition in Hermes’s reply to Apollo and offer two comparanda in Greek literature

Apollo · Art · Laughter · Literature · Reflexive pronoun · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Historical and Literary Studies · History

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