sources: SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY

The sources grounding every entity classification and relationship in the database (live count on the home page and in v_release_metrics). Primary texts include the Pyramid Texts (c. 2375 BCE), Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, the Masoretic Text, Nag Hammadi corpus, Avesta, Ginza Rba, the Chaldean Oracles, the Corpus Hermeticum, Quran, and more. Secondary scholarship covers standard academic monographs for each tradition.

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SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY Homer, Iliad and Odyssey (c. 750-675 BCE); trans. Richmond Lattimore (Iliad, Univ. of Chicago 1951) and trans. Emily Wilson (Odyssey, Norton 2017)   primary text The foundational Greek primary texts; the Iliad (24 books, the rage of Achilles and the Trojan War) and the Odyssey (24 books, the return of Odysseus) are the oldest surviving Greek literary works and the primary source for Olympian personalities, divine behavior, the cosmological structure of the Greek world (Olympus / earth / Tartarus), the Nereid catalog (Iliad XVIII), the divine assembly, and the Trojan War heroes. The Nekyia (Odyssey XI) is the primary text for the underworld geography (Asphodel, Elysium, Tartarus) and the role of Hades, Persephone, Minos, Rhadamanthus, Tiresias, and the dead. Homer depicts the gods as active participants in human affairs; his characterizations of Zeus, Hera, Athena, Apollo, Ares, Aphrodite, Hermes, Hephaestus, Poseidon, Artemis, and Demeter establish the canonical Olympian personalities that all later Greek literature responds to.

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