The independent heroes of theIliad

Abstract

My objective in this paper is to consider the question of the mysteriousness or numinosity of the gods in theIliadby examining first how heroes talk about and react to the gods, and second how Homer handles fate. My aim is to integrate the findings into a wider thesis about theIliad'snarrative strategy. Griffin (1980) 152 discusses the mysteriousness and numinosity of Homeric gods, and citesIl.i 43–52,Od.iii 371–82, xix 33–42, saying ‘It is perhaps worth emphasising that in each of these … episodes, we see not only the god behaving like a real god, mysteriously, but also the characters who are present at the moment of revelation responding to it in what can only be called a religious way: adoration or reverent silence’.

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