Phrixos

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Iliad 7.063-064

comment on the name Phrixos as illuminated by phrix in these versesThe noun phríx ‘shuddering’, which conveys the subjectivized feeling of an observer who shudders when h ... Continue reading

Iliad 9.004-008

The penthos ‘grief’ felt by the losing Achaeans is now compared, by way of a simile, to a seastorm brought by the North Wind and the West Wind personified respectively as Boreas an ... Continue reading