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Homer, Odyssey, 8.499-8.520
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ἔνθεν ἑλὼν ὡς οἱ μὲν ἐυσσέλμων ἐπὶ νηῶνhis song, taking it up as some Argives boarded well-benched ships, cast fire on the huts, and sailed away, while others sat already, beside renowned Odysseusin the Trojan assembly, hidden in the horse, for the Trojans themselves had dragged it to the acropolis.
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ὣς ὁ μὲν ἑστήκει, τοὶ δʼ ἄκριτα πόλλʼ ἀγόρευονSo it stood, and the Trojans voiced many differing opinions as they sat around it. Plans pleased them in three ways: to split the hollow tree, with ruthless bronze, to pieces, to drag it to the highest point and throw it from the rocks, or let it be a talisman, a great glorious gift to the gods
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τῇ περ δὴ καὶ ἔπειτα τελευτήσεσθαι ἔμελλεν·the very way that, even then, it was about to happen, for it was their destiny to be destroyed, after the city enfolded the great Wooden Horse, where all the best of the Argives sat, bearing death and doom for Trojans. He sang how the sons of the Achaeans sacked the city
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ἱππόθεν ἐκχύμενοι, κοῖλον λόχον ἐκπρολιπόντες.when they left their hollow ambush and poured out of the horse. He sang that they sacked the steep city, in one place, then another, but Odysseus made his way to the home of Deiphobus, like Ares, with godlike Menelaus. He said Odysseus endured the grimmest war there
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νικῆσαι καὶ ἔπειτα διὰ μεγάθυμον Ἀθήνην.and won in the end on account of great-hearted Athena. This the far-famed singer sang, but Odysseusmelted, as tears from under eyelids wet his cheeks. As a woman weeps, when she falls on her dear husband, who's fallen in front of his city and people


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1. Homer, Iliad, 1.474, 4.145, 4.164-4.165, 6.448-6.449, 9.189, 14.187, 22.408-22.411, 24.776 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

1.474. /and served out to all, first pouring drops for libation into the cups. So the whole day long they sought to appease the god with song, singing the beautiful paean, the sons of the Achaeans, hymning the god who works from afar; and his heart was glad, as he heard.But when the sun set and darkness came on 4.145. /alike an ornament for his horse and to its driver a glory; even in such wise, Menelaus, were thy thighs stained with blood, thy shapely thighs and thy legs and thy fair ankles beneath.Thereat shuddered the king of men, Agamemnon, as he saw the black blood flowing from the wound 4.164. /For even if for the moment the Olympian vouchsafeth not fulfillment, yet late and at length doth he fulfill them, and with a heavy price do men make atonement, even with their own heads and their wives and their children. For of a surety know I this in heart and soul: the day shall come when sacred Ilios shall be laid low 4.165. /and Priam, and the people of Priam, with goodly spear of ash; and Zeus, son of Cronos, throned on high, that dwelleth in the heaven, shall himself shake over them all his dark aegis in wrath for this deceit. These things verily shall not fail of fulfillment; yet dread grief for thee shall be mine, O Menelaus 6.448. /always and to fight amid the foremost Trojans, striving to win my father's great glory and mine own. For of a surety know I this in heart and soul: the day shall come when sacred Ilios shall be laid low, and Priam, and the people of Priam with goodly spear of ash. 6.449. /always and to fight amid the foremost Trojans, striving to win my father's great glory and mine own. For of a surety know I this in heart and soul: the day shall come when sacred Ilios shall be laid low, and Priam, and the people of Priam with goodly spear of ash. 9.189. /And they came to the huts and the ships of the Myrmidons, and found him delighting his soul with a clear-toned lyre, fair and richly wrought, whereon was a bridge of silver; this had he taken from the spoil when he laid waste the city of Eëtion. Therewith was he delighting his soul, and he sang of the glorious deeds of warriors; 14.187. /veil herself, a fair veil, all glistering, and white was it as the sun; and beneath her shining feet she bound her fair sandals. But when she had decked her body with all adornment, she went forth from her chamber, and calling to her Aphrodite, apart from the other gods, she spake to her, saying: 22.408. /So was his head all befouled with dust; but his mother tore her hair and from her flung far her gleaming veil and uttered a cry exceeding loud at sight of her son. And a piteous groan did his father utter, and around them the folk was holden of wailing and groaning throughout the city. 22.409. /So was his head all befouled with dust; but his mother tore her hair and from her flung far her gleaming veil and uttered a cry exceeding loud at sight of her son. And a piteous groan did his father utter, and around them the folk was holden of wailing and groaning throughout the city. 22.410. /Most like to this was it as though all beetling Ilios were utterly burning with fire. And the folk had much ado to hold back the old man in his frenzy, fain as he was to go forth from the Dardanian gates. To all he made prayer, grovelling the while in the filth 22.411. /Most like to this was it as though all beetling Ilios were utterly burning with fire. And the folk had much ado to hold back the old man in his frenzy, fain as he was to go forth from the Dardanian gates. To all he made prayer, grovelling the while in the filth 24.776. /that is gentle to me or kind; but all men shudder at me.
2. Homer, Odyssey, 1.154, 1.325-1.327, 1.347, 1.422, 8.33-8.36, 8.72-8.82, 8.91, 8.266-8.369, 8.480-8.481, 8.487-8.498, 8.500-8.531, 9.172-9.176, 9.408, 9.410, 10.332-10.542, 11.367-11.369, 12.188, 17.385, 17.518-17.521, 17.606, 18.304, 21.406-21.409, 22.330, 23.125-23.126 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

3. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 1.496-1.511 (3rd cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

1.496. ἤειδεν δʼ ὡς γαῖα καὶ οὐρανὸς ἠδὲ θάλασσα 1.497. τὸ πρὶν ἐπʼ ἀλλήλοισι μιῇ συναρηρότα μορφῇ 1.498. νείκεος ἐξ ὀλοοῖο διέκριθεν ἀμφὶς ἕκαστα· 1.499. ἠδʼ ὡς ἔμπεδον αἰὲν ἐν αἰθέρι τέκμαρ ἔχουσιν 1.500. ἄστρα σεληναίη τε καὶ ἠελίοιο κέλευθοι· 1.501. οὔρεά θʼ ὡς ἀνέτειλε, καὶ ὡς ποταμοὶ κελάδοντες 1.502. αὐτῇσιν νύμφῃσι καὶ ἑρπετὰ πάντʼ ἐγένοντο. 1.503. ἤειδεν δʼ ὡς πρῶτον Ὀφίων Εὐρυνόμη τε 1.504. Ὠκεανὶς νιφόεντος ἔχον κράτος Οὐλύμποιο· 1.505. ὥς τε βίῃ καὶ χερσὶν ὁ μὲν Κρόνῳ εἴκαθε τιμῆς 1.506. ἡ δὲ Ῥέῃ, ἔπεσον δʼ ἐνὶ κύμασιν Ὠκεανοῖο· 1.507. οἱ δὲ τέως μακάρεσσι θεοῖς Τιτῆσιν ἄνασσον 1.508. ὄφρα Ζεὺς ἔτι κοῦρος, ἔτι φρεσὶ νήπια εἰδώς 1.509. Δικταῖον ναίεσκεν ὑπὸ σπέος· οἱ δέ μιν οὔπω 1.510. γηγενέες Κύκλωπες ἐκαρτύναντο κεραυνῷ 1.511. βροντῇ τε στεροπῇ τε· τὰ γὰρ Διὶ κῦδος ὀπάζει.
4. Vergil, Aeneis, 1.740-1.747 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.740. uch haughty violence fits not the souls 1.741. of vanquished men. We journey to a land 1.742. named, in Greek syllables, Hesperia : 1.743. a storied realm, made mighty by great wars 1.744. and wealth of fruitful land; in former days 1.745. Oenotrians had it, and their sons, 't is said 1.746. have called it Italy, a chieftain's name 1.747. to a whole region given. Thitherward
5. Valerius Flaccus Gaius, Argonautica, 1.252-1.295 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)



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achaean Bowie, Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (2021) 136
achilles, quarrel with odysseus Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
achilles Bowie, Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (2021) 136
aeneas, narrator Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
aeneas Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
agamemnon Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 256
alcinous Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
antiphony Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 256
aphrodite Bowie, Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (2021) 136; Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
apollo Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 267
arctinus Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
ares Bowie, Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (2021) 136
aretē Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 36
biē Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 36
body Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 44
carmina conuiuialia, greco-roman ethos of Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 267
carmina conuiuialia Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 267
carthage Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 267
community Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 44
demodocus Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 267; Bowie, Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (2021) 136; Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
dido Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 267; Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
ecphrasis' Burton, Dionysus and Rome: Religion and Literature (2009) 40
epeius Bowie, Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (2021) 136
epic cycle Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
ethical qualities, craftiness, deceit, deception, disguise, feigning, guile, sleight of hand, trickery (dolus, dolos) Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
fides / fides Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 267
hannibal, in capua Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 267
hector Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 256
hephaestus Bowie, Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (2021) 136
hero Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
homer, lucans use of Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 256
homer, model / anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 256
homer Marincola et al., Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians (2021) 21
homeric epics, ancient comparisons, structures of Cairns, Virgil's Augustan Epic (1989) 198
horse, wooden Bowie, Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (2021) 136
hospitality, greco-roman Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 267
hubris Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 36
iliad Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
intertextuality, allusion, two-tier intertextuality, model Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
iopas Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 267; Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
kosmos, and story Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 44
law (nomos) Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 44
lesches Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
luxuria, in capua Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 267
marriage Bowie, Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (2021) 136
mise en abyme Marincola et al., Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians (2021) 21
modestia Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 267
mētis Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 36
narratives Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
narrators, internal, aeneas Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
narrators, odyssean Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
odysseus, in iliad Cairns, Virgil's Augustan Epic (1989) 198
odysseus, in the cave of polyphemos Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 36
odysseus Bowie, Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (2021) 136; Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129; Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 256
odyssey Bowie, Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (2021) 136; Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 36
orpheus Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 267
paraphrase Bowie, Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (2021) 136
parmenides of elea Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 44
philosophy Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
polyphemos Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 36
punic wars, second Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 267
ring-composition Cairns, Virgil's Augustan Epic (1989) 198
self-imitation Cairns, Virgil's Augustan Epic (1989) 198
ship Bowie, Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (2021) 136
silius italicus, the power of lyre and music in Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 267
song Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 44
story Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
teuthras Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 267
third ways Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
tragedy, greek Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
tragedy, roman Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
trojan war Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129; Marincola et al., Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians (2021) 21
trojans Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
troy Bowie, Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (2021) 136; Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
vergil, aeneid, intertextual identity, cyclic Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129
vergil, aeneid, intertextual identity, odyssean Farrell, Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (2021) 129