kulindesthai 'roll'

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 ... Continue reading

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 ... Continue reading

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 ... Continue reading

analysis of pēma to both Patroklos and the Achaeans caused by Patroklos’ death, and so applicable to Achilles’ death, too, and association of Achilles with the theme of griefThe de ... Continue reading

The oncoming pēma ‘pain’ is pictured here as a boulder that breaks off from mountainous heights overhead and starts rolling downward from above, ever increasing in speed as it near ... Continue reading

Agamemnon misunderstands the oracle of Apollo at Delphi, which had evidently prophesied to him that Troy would be captured when the ‘best of the Achaeans’—Odysseus and Achilles—eng ... Continue reading