aristeuein ‘strive to be the best’

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Iliad 7.092–169

The Achaeans, faced with Hector’s challenge, hesitate, I.07.092–093. Their hesitation seems to indicate that not one of them is really the ‘best of the Achaeans’. Finally, Menelaos ... Continue reading

Iliad 11.506

comment on the diction of Homeric poetry affirming that the wounding of a hero thwarts his aristeiaThe wounding of a hero, as in the case of the wound suffered by the hero Makhaon ... Continue reading

Iliad 11.784

analysis of who is the best of the Achaeans in the context of Hektor’s challenge to the AchaeansTo ‘strive to be the best always’, that was the instruction of Peleus to his son Ach ... Continue reading