Aesthetic-Formative Energy

In Ancient Greece (before the advent of philosophy), the experience of human formation was woven as an ethical and aesthetic process. The metaphor of the loom and its weaving, which I propose in this research to examine Homer's epic poem Odyssey, is a heuristic device for understanding concepts that were dear to Greek society in the 7th century BC. the excellence (areté) of the hero, a man of noble lineage; his honour (timé) in leading his family (óikos) and the community of the polis for which he is responsible - so that he acquires fame among his descendants in the future and becomes full of glory (kléos); the willingness to be good (agathós) and to be beautiful (kalós) - concepts or values complemented by the specifically feminine areté, which is translated by the beauty of women and their social role within the family. In a world that was gradually breaking away from mythical-religious thinking and establishing a new way of thinking, we can recognise in the Odyssey the beginnings of a "formative novel" (perhaps the first recorded in writing in the West?).