mēnis

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Iliad 1.1

... extual analysis that this commentary will track over the course of the poem supports one point that we anticipate here. mēnis is a keyword of a 'theme' or relatively formalized, ... Continue reading

Iliad 1.11

... mortals. How this system works and the significance of offenses to it will be tracked in this commentary as part of the mēnis theme in the poem, to which they are vitally related ... Continue reading

Odyssey 2.63-79

... explicable as a return for an earlier bad turn by Odysseus, but if that is not the case, they deserve as punishment the mēnis of gods (Od. 2.66-67).As for what mēnis is, let us t ... Continue reading

Odyssey 3.132-135

As the cause of Athena’s mēnis here shows, besides failing to remember and therefore to act appropriately, failing to be νοήμων ‘thoughtful,’ ‘intelligent,’ ‘in possession o ... Continue reading