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A Homer Commentary in Progress

aristeuein ‘strive to be the best; have an epic-high-point [aristeiā]’

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Iliad 7.090

Gregory Nagy

In Hector’s imagined scenario of an outcome for his duel with whoever is the ‘best of the Achaeans’, the warrior he will kill be ‘striving to be the best’, as expressed by the verb ... Continue reading