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A Homer Commentary in Progress

Iliad 2.553-2.554

Greg Nagy

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

Read in Context

The word homoios ‘similar to, same as, used in comparisons, is essential for understanding the semantics of relativism as well as absolutism in Homeric diction. See the anchor comment at I.05.441.