Les mythes d'Homère et la pensée grecque. Philosophie Collection "Jewels of the Orient"

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Les mythes d'Homère et la pensée grecque. Philosophie Collection "Jewels of the Orient"Homer fascinates, and his influence remains immense, from Antiquity to the present day (Paul Claudel, Gabriel Audisio, Joyce, Cavafy, Kazantsakis). But some have severely criticized Homeric poetry (Xenophanes, Plato, Epicurus). Xenophanes (6th BC) reproached Homer for giving the gods an unflattering and immoral image; as for Plato, he believed that the study of philosophia should sublimate the study of Homeric poetry, then the foundation of the