![]() ” He says that the actions of gods and heroes gain fame through the medium of the singer’s words, and the singer calls his medium kleos.So, simplistically, kleos is the sung and heard glory of a person. ![]() ![]() In the words of Nagy, “Kleos is the formal word which the singer himself used to designate the songs which he sang in praises of God and man or by extension the songs which people learnt to sing from him.” Kleos is also the objectification of the hero’s personal survival in epic song, the imperishable fame which lives among men and keeps alive the hero’s name.Thus as Nagy points out, “The usual translation of Kleos as fame is inadequate, for fame indicates only the consequences rather than the full semantic range. In The Odyssey by Homer also, we find indirect references to the kleos of the eponymous hero Oddyseus and his son Telemachus. This is why, it has got an important place in the Greek epics also. ![]() Hence, the concept of kleos formed an essential part of the bardic tradition which helped the people to maintain the heroic stature of the mythical heroes from generation to generation. Heroic glory occupies a very crucial place in the Indo-European epic tradition, because the Greek society is a shame culture, in which being honoured is one of the primary purposes of people’s lives. ![]()
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