Lloyd, Michael (Michael A.)Michael (Michael A.)Lloyd2025-02-142025-02-141987-04-01Eranoshttp://hdl.handle.net/10197/27483This article examines two passages in Homer (Odyssey 1.353-5 and 8.523-31), and argues that they do not show that poetry has a didactic purpose or effect. The task of the bard is to give an accurate and transparent account of heroic deeds, and not to select or adjust the facts in order to point a moral.enDidacticismSufferingSelf-pityTruthfulnessHomerOdysseyJournal Article8585902024-03-08https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/