The Homeric and Hesiodic conception of the universe

Abstract

Abstract taken from the Introduction section of the thesis: The chief purpose· of this paper is to give a full account of the Homeric and Hesiodic ideas of' the different parts of the universe, the main sources of information being the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, the Theogony of Hesiod, the Homeric hymns, and Apollodorus.