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A Homer Commentary in Progress

Iliad 09.674

Greg Nagy

Last updated at March 12, 2020, 4:44 p.m.

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Now Agamemnon is asking Odysseus whether Achilles is willing to ward off the fire of Hector from the beached ships of the Achaeans. The obsession with this fire has lost none of its intensity.