On the Sometime Inscrutability of Divine Portents In Iliad 4.78ff., Athene, at the behest of Zeus, comes down to earth to stir up the Trojans to break their oaths to the Achaians so that the war might
Odyssey 18 and Iros At the beginning of Odyssey 18, we meet the interesting character of Iros, a public beggar. ‘Iros’ is not his actual name, but it is what people cal Continue Reading →
Memory, Pleasure, and Suffering/Aeneas, Odysseus, and Eumaios It is well known that Aeneas’ speech in Aeneid 1.198-207 draws on a speech of Odysseus in Odyssey 12.208ff. (see, e.g., R.D. Williams ad A.1.198f. Her Continue Reading →
