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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Iliad 7.092–169
Gregory NagyThe 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
Gregory Nagycomment 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
Gregory Nagyanalysis 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