The Homeric Gods by Walter F. Otto
An interpretive study of the deities encountered in Homeric epic that treats them as living, autonomous powers shaping the world of heroes—embodiments of forces like fate, light, war, and prophecy—rather than as moral legislators; it emphasizes the gods’ numinous otherness, their immediacy in human life and ritual, and shows how their presence and characteristics give the epics their cosmological coherence, aesthetic tone, and distinctive outlook on human destiny.
- Published
- 1929
- Nationality
- German
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- Unknown
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- Original Language
- German
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- Alternate Titles
- - Die Götter Griechenlands
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