Hôra
idea · 2 works · 6 mentions · 9 anchored passages
hôra · hora · hôrai · season · seasons · time
in the texts
Odyssey
The concept of season or time, marked explicitly in the simile describing the suitors' panicked flight.
They fled to the other end of the court like a herd of cattle maddened by the gadfly in early summer [ hôra] when the days are at their longest.
People should go away early and not keep late hours at a religious festival.
there was wheat planted between each row, and they yield grapes of every kind when the seasons [ hôrai] of Zeus have been laid heavy upon them.
Iliad
The Greek term for season, used in the simile comparing the swarm at Sarpedon's body to flies in the season of spring.
Men swarmed about the body, as flies that buzz round the full milk-pails in the season [ hôra] of spring when they are brimming with milk - even so did they gather round Sarpedon;