In Book 9 of The Odyssey, what convention of the epic is Homer using in the following passage? "When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, we admired the island and wandered all over it…"
"rosy-fingered Dawn" is a common epithet used in the Odyssey. An epithet is a phrase that is a description, and when used, everyone understands the reference. For example, another epithet would be "Son of Laertes" for Odysseus.
