La menor edad en los poemas homéricos

This paper is a study of the various aspects of infancy, boyhood and girlhood in Homer. Firstly, of the terminology and the child psychology revealed in the poems. Secondly, of views on childhood, family scenes, breeding, the relationships between parents and their children, children and war and scenes of infants play in the open. Lastly, what might be described as the earliest courtships of adolescence, amongst other aspects.\udWith some involvement of myth related to the subject, there are depictions of life and basic psychology evident in the Homeric poems. The Iliad appears relative to its length, richer regarding the subject of children compared with the Odyssey. It contains detail, which although complementary to that of the Odyssey, shows a clear contrast in nature and meaning