sorrows of the Trojan War

... ion of nēpenthes as ‘negating sorrow [penthos]’, I refer ahead to the comment on O.04.220–226.Menelaos laments here the sorrows of the Trojan War, O.04.093–112, and Telemachus responds by weeping, O ... Continue reading

At O.04.113–116, we saw that Telemachus weeps in response to the laments of Menelaos over the sorrows of the Trojan War. And now we see at O.04.182–185 that Telemachus weeps again in response to further laments of Menelaos, whose sad words are at this point refe ... Continue reading

Helen presents her story about the sorrows of the Trojan War as an entertainment, marked by the the programmatic word terpesthai ‘feel delight’, O.04.239. Evidently, the drug nēpenthes has occluded the s ... Continue reading