The False Dream, personified, is instructed by Zeus to tell Agamemnon that the victory of the Achaeans over the Trojans will be quick and easy and painless, since the goddess Hērā ...
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When Agamemnon wakes up from dreaming the False Dream, he experiences the sensation of an omphē ‘oracular voice’ that has just now been poured all over him. This idea of omphē as a ...
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comment on Hektor as pēma, in the context of discussing Achilles as pēma to TrojansIn the words of Diomedes, Hector is a pēma ‘pain’ for the Achaeans, I.11.347. The pain that he in ...
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Iliad 2.007-015
Gregory NagyThe False Dream, personified, is instructed by Zeus to tell Agamemnon that the victory of the Achaeans over the Trojans will be quick and easy and painless, since the goddess Hērā ... Continue reading
Iliad 2.041
Gregory NagyWhen Agamemnon wakes up from dreaming the False Dream, he experiences the sensation of an omphē ‘oracular voice’ that has just now been poured all over him. This idea of omphē as a ... Continue reading
Iliad 11.347
Gregory Nagycomment on Hektor as pēma, in the context of discussing Achilles as pēma to TrojansIn the words of Diomedes, Hector is a pēma ‘pain’ for the Achaeans, I.11.347. The pain that he in ... Continue reading