So, I maintain that the kleos of Homeric poetry is in its own right a seasonally recurring ritual event, since both the Iliad and the Odyssey were performed at the festival of the Panathenaia in Athens. And, as we have seen, the poetic event of a competition in performing the Iliad and the Odyssey at the Panathenaia was parallel to the athletic event of a competition of apobatai at the same festival. This athletic event, as we have also seen, is comparable to the mock battle of the Ballētus, which was the primary athletic event of the Eleusinian Games and which qualifies as tīmē aphthitos, ‘unwilting honor’, in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (261, 263), while the primary poetic event of performing epic at the Panathenaia qualifies as kleos aphthiton, ‘unwilting glory’, in the Homeric Iliad (9.413).