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Homerizon Conference: Richard H. Armstrong

Richard H. Armstrong back to Homerizon Conference main page From Huponoia to Paranoia: On the Secular Co-optation of Homeric Religion in  Vico, Feuerbach, and Freud. Herodotus tells us that the Greeks got their notions of the gods from Homer   and Hesiod, “who gave the gods their names, determined their spheres and   functions, and described their outward forms” (Hist. 2.53). For philosophers like Xenophanes of Colophon and Plato,… Read more

Homerizon Conference: Ellen Bradshaw Aitken

Ellen Bradshaw Aitken Back to Homerizon Conference main page An Early Christian Homerizon? Decoy, Direction, and Doxology In the first centuries of the development of Christianity, the Homeric poems and Homeric traditions continued to occupy a central place in Hellenistic and Roman cultural arenas. This paper explores some of the “Homeric horizons” evident in texts from the formative period of ancient Christianity (first through third centuries C.E.). It focuses… Read more