Odyssey
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Odyssee · the Odyssey
in the texts
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Homeric epic referenced for the example of Laertes.
The older members of the Family or Joint Family seem in advanced age to have become pensioners on it, and, like Laertes in the Odyssee, to have vacated their privileges of ownership or of authority.
Phaedo
Homer's epic poem, cited as the textual source for the episode of Odysseus admonishing his own heart.
Well then, do we not now find that the soul acts in exactly the opposite way, leading those elements of which it is said to consist and opposing them in almost everything through all our life, and tyrannizing over them in every way, sometimes inflicting harsh and painful punishments (those of gymnastics and medicine), and sometimes milder ones, sometimes threatening and sometimes admonishing, in s …
Symposium
One of the Homeric poems memorized by Niceratus.
and so even now I can repeat the whole Iliad and the Odyssey by heart.