dēmiourgoi (dēmioergoi) ‘craftsmen of the dēmos’

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Odyssey 17.381-391

... oners of such crafts include various social grades of poets. (Details in Nagy 2011a §149.) Similarly in the case of the dēmiourgoi (dēmioergoi) ‘craftsmen of the dēmos’ at O.17.383: these craftsmen too must have been juri ... Continue reading

Odyssey 19.135

In the comment at O.17.381–394, I noted the listing there of four kinds of craftsmen who belong to the category of dēmiourgoi (dēmioergoi) ‘craftsmen of the dēmos’, where dēmos ‘community, district’ is to be understood as a legally-sanctioned zone of activity within which craftsmen are authorized to be pr ... Continue reading