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Jørgensen’s Law or Why Mortal Characters in the Homeric Poems Cannot Distinguish Which Gods Intervene in Their Lives

Anyone who hasn’t read the Odyssey and the Iliad, the two great Greek epics attributed to Homer that form the basis of Western literature, doesn’t know what they’re missing out on. And those who have read them may have missed, undoubtedly, a curious detail: despite the constant interference of the gods in the characters’ lives, […]