seven captive Aeolian women from Lesbos

The story that is being told here at I.09.128–131 and retold at I.09.270–272 centers on one single stunning event: Achilles captured the entire island of Lesbos. By implication, th ... Continue reading

Among the prizes that Agamemnon at I.09.128–131 offers as compensation to Achilles are seven captive Aeolian women who were captured by Achilles when he conquered the Aeolian islan ... Continue reading

The story that is being told here at I.09.128–131 and retold at I.09.270–272 centers on one single stunning event: Achilles captured the entire island of Lesbos. By implication, th ... Continue reading

in the context of the analysis of Messon as the setting of the seasonally recurring festival of the federation of the Aeolian citiesThe description of the women from Lesbos as vict ... Continue reading

The story that is being told here at I.09.270–272 and retold earlier at I.09.128–131 centers on one single stunning event: Achilles captured the entire island of Lesbos. By implica ... Continue reading

Among the prizes that Agamemnon at I.09.128–131 offers as compensation to Achilles are seven captive Aeolian women who were captured by Achilles when he conquered the Aeolian islan ... Continue reading

The references at I.09.128–131 and at I.09.270–272 to the story about the conquest of the Aeolian island of Lesbos by Achilles are complemented by the reference here at I.11.624–62 ... Continue reading

analysis of the reference to the Kallisteia and Briseis’ Aeolian cultural formation in the Iliad, in the context of the argument that the dominantly Ionic tradition as represented ... Continue reading

The property that Agamemnon promised to give as compensation to Achilles is now being delivered for possession. This property to be possessed by Achilles includes not only material ... Continue reading