Demodokos (singer of Alcinous)
Demodokos ( Greek Δημόδοκος ) is in the Odyssey of Homer the God-inspired, blind singer in Sharia , the land of the Phaeacians , the Muse took his eyes and gave sweet songs.
In the house of King Alcinous he sings and plays for meals and in the market to dance. In Odysseus ' presence he recites the legends of the quarrel between Odysseus and Achilles and of the Trojan horse with whose help the Greeks conquered Troy . The memories conjured up by the singer overwhelm Odysseus, who hides his tears by pulling his cloak over his head. Later Demodokos also recounts the burlesque story of the rendezvous of Ares and Aphrodite and their capture by the jealous Hephaestus (8.261-364).
At the throne of Apollo in Amyklai Demodokos was depicted starting his song for the dance of the Phaiacs. Pausanias cites him, together with the singer of the same name from Agamemnon, as an example of the Aoden who stayed at the courts of the kings of the heroic age as representatives of wisdom and guarantors of custom.
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- Homer's Odyssey 8.44; 8.62ff; 8,261ff; 8,491ff; 13.27
- Pausanias 1,2,3; 3.18.7
literature
- René Nünlist: Demodokos 1. In: Der Neue Pauly (DNP). Volume 3, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01473-8 , column 450 f.
- Maria Pipili: Demodokos 1 . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume III, Zurich / Munich 1986, p. 371.
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Demodokos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 987 ( digitized version ).
