Philosophy, Mythology
marzo 19th, 2012
Giovanni Reale, professor of History of Philosophy at the Catholic University in Milan, explained the origin of the concept of “soul” developed in the Greek world in the period between Homer and Plato,10 reported some very interesting statements with reference to the relationship between men and gods in Homer’s world…
• He underlines that gods have the full range of human vices and have an ambivalent character, since the triad Zeus, Apollo, Athena: Zeus does not keep promises, Zeus can be easily deceived and Apollo gets directly involved in the battle reminding the Diomedes that he should not catch up with the gods, because he is not the same as the race of men trudging on the ground…
He also recalls, two passages from the Iliad that we find very interesting if seen in relation to the hypothesis that gods were people made of flesh and that, during the Trojan War, they could actually still be on Earth (since one of them had established a covenant with Moses in almost the same time when the events described in the Iliad took place…).
• Elena damned looks like the immortal goddesses…
• Poseidon disguises himself as the prophet Calchas and talk to Ajax Oileus who though recognizes him and says: “This is not Calchas, I immediately watched behind him, his footprints and footsteps as he was going; gods are easily recognized!”.
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