Ekhetos

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Odyssey 18.085-087/ anchor comment on extreme cruelty in Homeric narrative

... f Ithaca over to the mainland, and there the hapless beggar will be handed over to a mysteriously infernal figure named Ekhetos, who will proceed to cut off his prisoner’s nose and ... Continue reading

Odyssey 22.437-479

... us adherents of Odysseus could inflict horrors that were parallel to the horrors inflicted by the mysteriously infernal Ekhetos, as recounted in ghastly detail at O.18.085–087. In ... Continue reading