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A Homer Commentary in Progress

Iliad 11.784

Greg Nagy

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

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To ‘strive to be the best always’, that was the instruction of Peleus to his son Achilles, and this instruction is relevant to the title ‘best of the Achaeans’ as claimed by the figure of Achilles.