kḗr ‘cut; slice; portion; fated death’

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Iliad 8.066-077

analysis of the coextensiveness of Zeus’ Will and Achilles’ prayer in his mēnis and their marking by the selas of Zeus/of Hektor at the shipsThe momentum of the fighting between th ... Continue reading

Iliad 9.410–416

From the standpoint of its etymology, derived as it is from the verb keirein ‘cut, slice’, the noun kḗr in the sense of a ‘cut’ or a ‘slice’ or a ‘portion’ need not convey the nega ... Continue reading

Iliad 9.413

analysis of kleos as used of stories of conflict by Herodotus and in the Iliad where Achilles’ referring to the Iliadic tradition as kleos aphthiton (and so, Homer of Herodotus, as ... Continue reading