Nestor’s entanglement

... teer of Diomedes.(What follows is a general commentary on these verses; what follows after that is an anchor comment on Nestor’s entanglement and the poetics of evocation) Seeing the lightning s ... Continue reading

This whole epic narrative about Nestor’s entanglement and his rescue by Diomedes is evocative of another epic narrative where the old hero gets entangled—and gets rescued this time by another youn ... Continue reading

on Diomedes as a stand-in for Antilokhos (in driving Nestor’s chariot and saving him) as at I.08.80ff. and comparison with Pindar Pythian 6Here at I.09.057–058, Nestor makes a rema ... Continue reading

... os, son of Nestor, in the Odyssey. On the importance of this figure in the Iliad, see I.08.078–117 / anchor comment on: Nestor’s entanglement and the poetics of evocation. See also the comments ... Continue reading