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A Homer Commentary in Progress

Homeric Hymns To Aphrodite 202-203

Greg Nagy

Last updated at March 12, 2020, 4:47 p.m.

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analysis of the divine motive for abduction by Eos as both preservative and sexual (and 203 as the same verse as used when Eos abducts Kleitos in O.15.251)