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A Homer Commentary in Progress

omphē ‘oracular voice’

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Iliad 2.041

Gregory Nagy

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 an ‘oracular voice’ (the word is cognate with English song) is picked up by ... Continue reading