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A Homer Commentary in Progress

Iliad 9.393-9.400

Leonard Muellner

Last updated at March 12, 2020, 4:44 p.m.

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analysis of the goal of Agamemnon’s offer of gifts and the questions of relative status (rank) involved, specifically Agamemnon’s offer of gifts as an assertion of the giver’s prestige (potlatch) and Achilles’ responses