Charis du kairos et kairos de la charis, une spécificité homérique

Abstract

This essay intends to offer an approach to charis and kairos viewed not as separate but as intertwined. This happy interlacement is a specificity of the Homeric tradition, specifically found in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. A poet like Hesiod will have the greatest difficulty in conceiving the proximity of kairos and charis without a negative side (Pandora, a trap for men).