post-heroic age

The ships of the Achaeans are beached along the shores of a large U-shaped bay that opens into the Hellespont. See Map 1 and Map 2 at HPC 157 and 158 respectively. Such a bay no lo ... Continue reading

As indicated in the comment for I.08.220–227, the ships of the Achaeans are beached along the shores of a large U-shaped bay that opens into the Hellespont. See Map 1 and Map 2 at ... Continue reading

Here as well as earlier at I.08.220–227 and at I.11.005–016, also later at I.14.027–036, the headquarters of the Achaeans are said to be located at the same place where the ship of ... Continue reading

... retells the non-existence of the Achaean Wall in a future time of its own performance, and such a future time will be a post-heroic age (HPC 155n16). On the Homeric conceptualization of a ... Continue reading

... seeing them as they were back then, alive and hoping to be remembered, the poetry now views them through the lens of a post-heroic age, seeing them as already dead and hopefully immortali ... Continue reading

analysis of the naustathmon as the topographical, political and sacral centerpoint of the Achaeans and Agamemnon’s, Diomedes’, Nestor’s and Odysseus’ ships location in this spaceNe ... Continue reading

While the Trojans are mourning Hector in Troy, I.23.001, Achilles and his fellow Achaeans have all returned to the ships beached at the Hellespont, I.23.001–002, and the hero now c ... Continue reading

... tting the hair in response to the death of Achilles becomes an aetiology for explaining why it is that Greek men of the post-heroic age customarily wear their hair short, not long—except f ... Continue reading

... the age of heroes, the date palm was still young and small, O.06.166–168—much smaller than it is imagined to be in the post-heroic age. Odysseus here compares Nausicaa in all her beauty t ... Continue reading

... s festival as narrated here in Rhapsody 22 is not yet a ritually correct event: a correction can come about only in the post-heroic age, when the pollutions of the heroic age that happen i ... Continue reading

What follows was originally posted in Classical Inquiries 2017.01.03. Here is the original introduction to this anchor comment:The Homeric Iliad as we have it refers at least tw ... Continue reading