Agamemnon's Test of the Army in Iliad Book 2 and the Function of Homeric Akhos

Authors

Erwin F. Cook, Trinity UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 2003

Abstract

I offer a reading of the Diapeira episode based on the semantics and thematics of akhos. My findings resolve a crux at 2.171, where Homer identifies akhos as the reason Odysseus is not launching his ship. Homer clearly signposts the nature of Odysseus' akhos as grief over loss of time in Athene's subsequent speech to him, but the reference is proleptic and has consequently eluded the commentators.

DOI

10.1353/ajp.2003.0030

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

City

Baltimore, MD

Repository Citation

Cook, E. (2003). Agamemnon's test of the army in Iliad book 2 and the function of Homeric Akhos. The American Journal of Philology, 124(2), 165-198. https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2003.0030

Publication Information

The American Journal of Philology