Homeric Greek
κλέος
Kleos
kleos
Report, rumor, glory: that which is heard. Glory is acoustic.
Etymology
κλέος: rumor, report, glory, that which is heard. Related to κλύω, to hear, from PIE *ḱléwos (Beekes, Chantraine). Cognates include Sanskrit śravas. An etymological relation to hearing is not a complete definition: Homeric usage still has to be read.
Historical usage
Achilles in the Iliad chooses kleos over a long obscure life. Odysseus wants both kleos and nostos, and the Odyssey shows the collision.
Later development
Gregory Nagy and others have treated kleos as the fame conferred by epic performance itself. That is a theory of the poems as machines of memory, not a Homeric glossary entry.
Why it matters here
When Odysseus shouts his name at Polyphemus, kleos is the hunger that reopens the sea. Glory is not a medal pinned at the end. It is a risk taken in the middle.
Stories that hold this word
Relationship type is not optional
A word present in a source text is not the same as a later critical term applied to that story.
In the source text
The OdysseyWanted together with nostos. The shout of the name spends it.
Related
In the source text
The Odyssey