concept

Prologue

Words

An opening address before the main work. Not colophon as the end note, and not epigraph as a borrowed lead quote.

Hellenic religion

  • Prologue appears in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad opens with invocatory prologue speech before the wrath tale. A named prologue opening in that epic, not epilogue as a closing and not every preface dump.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.