Talk:Epithets in Homer

This title added by other user

ignoring all rules, and the creation of the earth is also apart of the great god Epithet

i edit: the article, and it's obviously an artifact of a previous phrasing, not a true error, claims that the use of epithets is NOT a characteristic of homer's work, and then... goes on to show how it IS. again, it's just a bit of, at worst, sloppiness, but rather an important bit, considering the title of the piece is, "epithets in homer". um, fix that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.117.148.157 (talk • contribs) 

yay! thank you for using my edit, regardless of my ignoring the rules. for what it's worth, you can yell at me via altgrave at hotmail dot com, should you care to.

epithets for poisideon

please does anyone have any epithets for poisideon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.242.148.52 (talk) 20:20, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Epithet list

The list of epithets needs a lot of work — relocation of the very generic epithets (godlike, great-hearted, white-armed) to general lists, verification that phrases are actually frequent enough to be considered epithets (perhaps by adding the original Greek). I'll do what I can, but my exposure to Homer is limited. Erutuon (talk) 01:46, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Huh?

It says penis randomly on this page ( in a non-fitting way) since I'm not a wiki-head nor knowledgable on this topic I'll just post it here so someone's attention who can fix this will kindly do so. Sorry if this is the incorrect way of bringing attention to an error.

If you ever see any seemingly random/non-contributing edits like these, feel free to undo the edit from the "View history" page, as I'm pretty sure that's considered vandalism. You don't have to wait for another person to come by and notice the edit - in fact, it's best if you correct it yourself right then and there -- and don't worry about being in the 'incorrect place' to call out an error! This is the right place, and it's better if you call it out yourself or take care of it anyway.. 71.14.138.120 (talk) 02:42, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

A bit unclear

I'd like to see the writing redone a bit, specially to make it clear that these epithets have no relation to present circumstances, and is simply a general application. The sentence "it changes the meaning of the noun" is, I think, both confusing and deceptive. J1812 (talk) 21:17, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Briseis

Why is Briseis not on this list? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A03F:4C86:5700:1D63:7579:11F9:575B (talk) 00:05, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Antitheos

on its face means counter god or against god. The idea that it somehow denoted godlike is probably wrong and certainly requires citation. -- LlywelynII 15:43, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

In ancient Greek, "anti-" does not always or even mainly mean what it does in modern English. It can mean "in place of", "in exchange for", etc. The name "Antipater" does not mean "against the father"... AnonMoos (talk) 04:43, 19 November 2022 (UTC)