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A Homer Commentary in Progress

Iliad 9.522

Greg Nagy

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

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Phoenix refers to the three ambassadors, including himself, as philtatoi, the ‘nearest and dearest’ to Achilles. But the relationship of Achilles to the three has its problems, as analyzed in the comment for I.09.193–198.