The paper takes up the issue of Helen’s guilt for the outbreak of the Trojan war present in the Iliad and in the oral epic tradition. It puts forward a thesis that in order to blame others or to free ...themselves from blame epic heroes employ the typical in oral culture technique of conducting disputes. Like other characters in the Iliad, Helen, is also under constant social pressure which seeks to find her guilty and, in effect, to activate a mechanism of making a scapegoat of her. To defend herself, she risks self-accusations in order to make it impossible for other people to bring a charge against her. Helen cares about her good opinion in the Trojan society and particularly in the circle of women.
The article attempts to answer the question: is it possible to represent the Last Supper of Jesus and His Apostles by means of verses selected from Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey. The Homeric Cento ...no. 40, which emphasizes the community of Christ’s table with His disciples, has been a subject of my analysis. The specific selection of Homeric verses, with some minor modifications, allowed the centonist to construct a new text with a completely different context and content, reflecting both the reality of the Upper Room and the establishment of the Eucharist by Jesus.
Thought about the origins of Occidental Science take us back to Greece in VII and VI centuries b. C. Being the most splendor century the V century, well known as Pericles's century. It is there were ...first traces of occidental literature were found and protected. Those literary texts, root of measure and principles of reason and freedom are the basic foundation not only for artistic and literary creation purposes but capital works for meaning, reason for the origin of Occidental Science. Starting from a pre-scientific thought, means of influence in the origin of rational thought and thus scientific thought, are here analysed. The fundamental literary works were considerations here stated are based on are, on the one side: The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer, and on the other side: Cosmogony and The works and the days by Hesiod. Differences and similarities of content in a socio-political context between those days and presently have been considered, as well as religious concepts - so much relevant and connected to Science in those historical dates - whose interest for our purposes forces our deepening in origins and postulates, which, to a certain extent, are still in force.
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