>>17979867
>the homeric hymn to ares doesnt say any of this
Nigga it's literally in the Iliad. Why are you criticising me for not reading it when you clearly haven't?
But Zeus who marshals storm clouds lowered a dark glance
and let loose at Ares: "No more, you lying, two-faced ...
no more sidling up to me, whining here before me.
You—I hate you most of all the Olympian gods.
Always dear to your heart,
strife, yes, and battles, the bloody grind of war.
You have your mother's uncontrollable rage-incorrigible,
that Hera—say what I will, I can hardly keep her down.
Hera's urgings, I trust,' have made you suffer this.
But I cannot bear to see you agonize so long.
You are my child. To me your mother bore you.
If you had sprung from another god, believe me,
and grown into such a blinding devastation,
long ago you'd have dropped below the Titans,
deep in the dark pit."
End of book 5 of the Iliad.
>>17980886
Greek interpretations of Homer changed over time, early Homeric criticism tends to think of it as allegorical, like the gods being literal forces of nature instead of real actors. Later it would become a more metaphorical.
