Forthcoming | Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds
The CHS team is pleased to announce the forthcoming online publication of Homeric Nēpios, by Susan Edmunds on the CHS website. Susan Edmunds’ thesis is a word study on the Homeric use of nēpios. Nēpios has often been translated as “child, infant, childish” or even “blind,” in part because some scholars thought it was from the negative nē– and Greek epos (“word, speech”), thus semantically equivalent to Latin infans. But Edmunds shows that nēpios really… Read more