Esthetic Epithets in Ancient Epic Poetry (Homer, Apollonius, Virgil)

Natia Arveladze

doi:10.52340/0f07s368

Authors

Natia Arveladze Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52340/0f07s368

Keywords:

aesthetic, epithet, ancient epic poetry

Abstract

Aesthetics is the conceptual expression of standards of beauty in literary forms. The expressive form can be a specific subject, event or lexical-grammatical unit. Everything that is beautiful is aesthetic too, though, according to ancient epic poetry, aesthetics implies beauty in the synthesis of morality. In ancient epic poetry epithet is the best way of representing an aesthetic expression. In the works by Homer, Apollonius, and Virgil, the epithets expressing aesthetic view are used to describe animate or inanimate objects as well as to represent the immortals. In the texts, the epithet of aesthetic evaluation emphasizes visual beauty, expresses moral value, intensifies the reader's emotional attitude to the situation or is an artistic identification mark.

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