Rhapsody

Rhapsody:

The chapters of the Iliad by Homer, are called "rhapsodies". Homer expresses in his works the contacting of the human spirit with the spirits of the Gods, that at times are friendly and supportive, and at other times hostile and challenging. This process, creates the ancient Greek sense of confrontation with the elements and powers of Nature, so that the individual will be eligible to acquire his own personal equilibrium through an everyday physical and spiritual struggle. The human heroes feel EUPHORIA by contacting the divine, superior spirits and so, receive blessings, challenges, perform victories or reach a glorious death through that process.

''The word "rhapsodical" acquired thence, the meaning of something harmonious, euphoric, heroic and valorous. ''

© 04-01-2014 G.Venetopoulos