Douglas Frame
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April 10, 2020, 8:52 p.m.
{"blocks":[{"key":"3401e","text":"Athena announces here her plan to visit Telemachus in order to ‘arouse’ him and ‘put spirit in his mind’. These two expressions mean the same thing. When Athena carries out her plan she disguises herself, in Book 1, as Mentes, a foreign trader, and then, in Books 2 and 3, as Mentor, an old man of Ithaca, and both these names mean the same thing, ‘he who arouses, he who stirs up’. The noun menos, ‘spirit’, in Od. 1.89 contains the same verbal root men- as the names Mentēs and Mentōr, and the occurrence of the noun in Athena’s speech anticipates her two disguises. For the meaning of the name Mentōr, particularly in relation to the name Nestōr, see the essay “Nestor’s Name”. As ‘he who stirs up’ the name Mentōr implies an active verb *menō, ‘stir up’, which does not occur in Greek. The active verb with the meaning ‘stir up’ is epotrunō, which is what occurs in Athena’s speech. To make the verbal connection with the names Mentēs and Mentōr the verb epotrunō is glossed in Athena’s speech by the phrase with menos. For more on the verb (ep)otrunō in relation to the name Mentōr, see Frame 2009:25n37.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":392,"length":5,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":451,"length":3,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":469,"length":6,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":480,"length":6,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":597,"length":6,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":642,"length":6,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":711,"length":6,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":742,"length":4,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":836,"length":8,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":932,"length":6,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":943,"length":6,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":959,"length":8,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":1017,"length":5,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":1045,"length":10,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":1080,"length":6,"style":"ITALIC"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"88j5b","text":"Frame, Douglas, 2009. Hippota Nestor. Cambridge, 2009","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":22,"length":14,"style":"ITALIC"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}}],"entityMap":{}}