a-kleiōs ‘without the genuine glory [kleos] (of poetry)’

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Iliad 22.304

... assure him of having the kleos ‘glory’ of poetry, and such ‘genuine’ glory is marked here by the negation of the adverb a-kleiōs ‘without the genuine glory [kleos] (of poetry)’. What he is saying, then, is that he wishes not to d ... Continue reading