Mortality and Immortality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23728513 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruno Currie (0000-0003-2509-0965, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Pages | 41-46 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Pindar and the cult of heroes (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780199277247.003.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W4388392578 |
| ISBN | 9780199277247 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In this chapter we will consider the Iliad and Odyssey separately, rather than speaking of both as ‘Homer’; the Iliad provides an instructively starker contrast with Pindar than the Odyssey. In the Iliad, it is insisted that mortals remain mortal, and immortals immortal (12.326—7, 21.106—10). We learn that Sarpedon might have been spared from death (16.4357, 443), and that Ares ‘might have died’ (5.388); but such possibilities remain just that in the Iliad.
Art · Immortality · Literature · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1986 - 2025 (40) |
| Highly cited | No |