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

Gregory Nagy

Here is what Antinoos threatens to do to Iros if this beggar loses the fight with the disguised Odysseus, O.18.085–087: Iros will be put on a ship and sent off from the island of Ithaca ov ... Continue reading

Odyssey 18.001-004

Gregory Nagy

... e, strength, violence’ in the note at O.18.001–117. As I already observed in that note, appearances here are deceiving: Iros looks strong on the outside but he is weak on the in ... Continue reading