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‘Going Alone’ At Iliad 24.198–205

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Gary Shiffman
Gary Shiffman
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
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Extract

In a short speech in Book 24 of the Iliad (194–9), Priam tells Hecuba of his intention to visit the camp of the Achaians in order to attempt to ransom the body of Hector. Hecuba responds with predictable consternation to this dangerous proposition (203–5)

Type
Shorter Notes
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , May 1992 , pp. 269 - 270
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1992

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References

1 Macleod, C. W., Homer, Iliad: Book 24 (Cambridge, 1982), p. 105Google Scholar, ‘CH’ is Wace, A. J. B. and Stubbings, F. H. (eds), A Companion to Homer (London, 1962).Google Scholar

2 Martinazzoli, F., Omero, Iliade Libro 24 (Rome, 1948)Google Scholar. Martinazzoli is most interested in the poetic effect of the word's placement at the end of line 203: ‘The word is isolated at the end of the line, representing thus, emphatically, the thought that terrifies Hecuba: Priam, alone, in the enemy camp.’

3 I thank Professor Lowell Edmunds of Rutgers University for his generous assistance in the preparation of this note.