In the Homeric epics, gods and men are regularly presented in contact with each other. Far from considering the Iliad and the Odyssey as texts that allow us to know how the Greeks represented the gods, this dissertation focuses on the “presentification” of the gods: they enter into relation with the men who experience their presence. Moreover, from an anthropological perspective, I take into account context of the epic performance as a moment when gods are made present. Such a link between men and gods requires and at the same time makes possible that the audience is constituted as a community.Through to the singer's song, reciprocity, kharis, binds the men together with each other and with the gods. Thus, the “songs between gods and men” ...