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A Homer Commentary in Progress

Iliad 1.233-1.237

Greg Nagy

Last updated at March 12, 2020, 4:43 p.m.

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The skēptron ‘scepter’ by which Achilles swears his Oath is here viewed as a thing of nature transformed into a thing of culture, by contrast with the scepter that is pictured in the Electra of Sophocles, 417-423.