{"id":10818,"date":"2013-05-01T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/homer\/?p=10818"},"modified":"2013-05-02T10:33:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T14:33:39","slug":"divine-license-iliad-21-342-355","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/homer\/2013\/05\/01\/divine-license-iliad-21-342-355\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine License (Iliad 21.342-355)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/homer\/files\/2013\/05\/Morisseau_podcast_Greek112_2013.mp3\">Morisseau_podcast_Greek112_2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will Morriseau argues that uses the gods to impose his own will on the poem. \u00a0His freedom with the facts is &#8220;divine license,&#8221; and Homer himself is the only real deity in the work. Will discusses this idea in the context of a puzzling simile in <em>Iliad<\/em> 21, where Hephaestus is scorching the battlefield. <em>Iliad<\/em> 21.342-355, discussed, translated, and read aloud by Will Morriseau.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 346px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:(31)_Flaxman_Ilias_1793,_gestochen_1795,_188_x_286_mm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" alt=\"drawing of personified winds blowing over a battlefield\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d0\/%2831%29_Flaxman_Ilias_1793%2C_gestochen_1795%2C_188_x_286_mm.jpg\/800px-%2831%29_Flaxman_Ilias_1793%2C_gestochen_1795%2C_188_x_286_mm.jpg\" width=\"336\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration of Iliad 23.263, based on a drawing by John Flaxman, 1793. 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Will discusses this idea in the context of a puzzling simile in Iliad 21, where Hephaestus is scorching the battlefield. 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