Demodocus (Odyssey character)

Demodocus (Greek Δημόδοκος ) is in the Odyssey of Homer, the God- inspired, blind singer of the Phaeacians on the island of Sharia, which the Muse took his eyes and gave sweet songs.

In the King Alkinoos house he sings and plays the banquet and on the market for a dance. In Odysseus ' presence, he claims the word from the hassles of Odysseus and Achilles and the Trojan horse that allows the Greeks conquered Troy. The summoned by the singer memories overwhelm Odysseus, who hides his tears by pulling the cloak over his head. Later Demodocus also carries the burlesque story of the rendezvous of Ares and Aphrodite, and their capture by the jealous Hephaestus ago ( 8.261 to 364 ).

On the throne of Apollo at Amyklai Demodocus was pictured as he sings his song to dance to the Phaeacians. Pausanias leads him along with the eponymous singer of Agamemnon as an example of the Aöden, which stayed as representatives of wisdom and guarantors of the custom in the courts of the kings of the heroic age.

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  • Homer Odyssey 8.44; 8,62 ff; 8,261 ff; 8.491 ff; 13.27
  • Pausanias 1,2,3; 3,18,7
John Flaxman Alcinous Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher
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