id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_aahe7dtxdvasvcxnqk275rqg5a Hugo Shakeshaft THE TERMINOLOGY FOR BEAUTY IN THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY 2019 22 .pdf application/pdf 13571 1419 73 general term of approbation alongside others like lovely or fine, while in academic discourse, the word beauty has a life of its own: since the emergence of aesthetics as an recent work has brought its cognate noun κάλλος into the picture.6 The Greek terminology for beauty, however, was far from limited to a single semantic family. As the most prolific word in Homer's terminology for beauty, καλός seems an appropriate place to begin. To understand how καλός relates to other Homeric terms and expressions for beauty, κάλλος and χάρις thus appear interchangeable as Homeric words for 'beauty'. words and deeds as well.72 It seems then that χάρις signifies an aesthetic property comparable to the modern notion of beauty in both its conceptual breadth and its range of Homer expresses Nausicaa's beauty in various ways: she is both 'like Like all Homeric terms and expressions for beauty, therefore, divine analogy is a place in Homer's terminology for beauty alongside words like χάρις and ἄγαλμα ./cache/work_aahe7dtxdvasvcxnqk275rqg5a.pdf ./txt/work_aahe7dtxdvasvcxnqk275rqg5a.txt