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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
Thanks for those insights HarryT.  I especially noticed the frequent use of “swift-footed” while so many Trojans were referred to as “breakers of horses” and wonder what was up with that?  |
I think my favourite epithet is one of Apollo's: "destroyer of ants". Why or how someone came up with that one, I can't imagine!
Apollo is, to my mind, probably the most interesting of the gods in both the Iliad and the Odyssey. Today, we probably most often associate Apollo with the Sun god, but that was a much later association. The Greek god of the Sun was called "Helios", and in was only in about the 3rd century AD that Apollo "merged" with Helios. In both Homer and in the much later Aeneid, Apollo has nothing whatsoever to do with the Sun.