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A Homer Commentary in Progress

Iliad 18.205–206

Greg Nagy

Last updated at March 12, 2020, 4:45 p.m.

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As Achilles gets ready to rejoin his companions in the war against the Trojans, his head catches on fire, lit up by the power of the goddess Athena. This fire is described at I.18.206 as a phlox ‘burst of flame’.