eukhesthai ‘claim’

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Iliad 20.241

comment on eukhesthai in Aeneas’ boast to Achilles (with reference to Muellner 1976)In boasting about his own genealogy, the hero Aeneas started the boast by signaling it with the ... Continue reading

Iliad 21.184–199

In this speech of Achilles, the hero is boasting, as expressed by way of the solemn word eukhesthai ‘claim’, I.21.187, about his genealogy as son of Peleus son of Aiakos son of Zeus himself, I.21.188–189. The point of the boast that Achilles makes he ... Continue reading