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A Homer Commentary in Progress

epea ‘words’ spoken in the act of boasting or in the act of performing epic

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Iliad 12.387-391

Gregory Nagy

analysis of the kind of boasting a hero seeks to avoid hearing from his opponent in order to protect his epic prestige (eukhesthai and epea, with the latter as words spoken by a ch ... Continue reading