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The Iliad is not an Achilleid, although Achilles is the most important character in the epic. One of the most striking features of the poem is the way in which it embraces the action of the whole Trojan war by retrospective and prospective references, rather than by narrating the events in full. In this, as is evident from ancient testimony, the Iliad was markedly different from the ‘cyclic’ epics (see esp. Hor. Ars 136f.). The human characters refer to the abduction of Helen, the initial embassy to the Trojans, the mustering at Aulis, the earlier campaigns and clashes; the prophecies and comments of the gods, particularly Zeus and Thetis, anticipate the doom of Achilles and the ultimate fall of Troy, also grimly foreshadowed in other ways. In an important passage which seems to be deliberately reserved for a late stage in the poem, Homer himself looks back to the origin of the whole conflict, the judgement of Paris which aroused the implacable anger of Athena and Hera against Troy. Another remarkable feature is the intensity of the action of the poem. In terms of time, the whole poem occupies some 40 days, of which only 14 include narrated events, and three in particular are the subject of fourteen books. As for place, the human action is virtually confined to three areas: the camp of the Greeks, the city of Troy, and the plain of battle which lies between. The scenes involving the Olympians are more various and provide a broader perspective, but their attention too is generally focussed on the human suffering on the battlefield. Consequently the Iliad gains in emotional power what it lacks in diversity of scene and situation. A third feature, already implied, is the prominence of the Trojans in the poem. The very title Iliad, though probably not original, reminds us that this is no jingoistic or ‘pan-Hellenic’ epic; despite the claims of some ancient commentators, the Trojans are treated by Homer with great sympathy and generosity. That is not to deny the fundamental guilt of Paris or to assert that the Achaean victory is undeserved.
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The commentary by Kirk and others (1985–93) is now the first resource; see also Macleod 1982 on book 24, Griffin 1995 on book 9. For general books on the Iliad in English see also Bowra 1930, Redfield 1975, Schein 1984 (useful but rather derivative), Mueller 1984, Edwards 1987, Silk 1987 (short but acute), Taplin 1992. In German Reinhardt 1961 and Schadewaldt 1943 are fundamental. Stanley 1993 is extremely useful for book-by-book bibliography even if one finds his analyses over-schematic. More specific studies are mentioned below.
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2. 3.443-6; 3.204-24; 2. 301-30; for references to earlier campaigning see e.g. 1. 366-9,6.414-28,9. 328-33. For anticipation of the fall of Troy see e.g. 4.163-5 - 6.447-9; 15.69-71; 18.207 ff., 22. 410-11, etc. For the death of Achilles see below, p. 91. In general see e.g. Kullmann 1960, ch. 5; Griffin 1980, 1; Mueller 1984, 66 f.
3. See esp. Reinhardt, K., ‘Das Parisurteil’, in Tradition und Geist (Göttingen, 1960), 16–36 Google Scholar; Griffin 1980, 195 n. 49; Richardson 1993, 276-8, a very careful discussion.
4. Taplin 1992, 14-22, with earlier references.
5. G. Nagy, in a series of studies, has described the Homeric epics as ‘pan-Hellenic’ in a different sense, following use of the term by A. Snodgrass: see e.g. Nagy, , Pindar’s Homer (Johns Hopkins, 1990), 70-1Google Scholar, and the 1995 paper cited in ch. 1 n. 77 above. By this he means that the epic spread widely, and that a common tradition of heroic song was swiftly established throughout the Greek world. It is certainly remarkable that the epic assumes that characters and readers are familiar with place-names and peoples throughout the Greek mainland and islands. This use of ‘pan-Hellenism’, however, would not affect the point made in my text, that the epic is not obviously nationalistic.
6. As the Meleager-tale especially makes clear (9. 524-99); see also 13. 460, 20.178ff., 6. 326ff.
7. See Page 1959, ch. 6, esp. 248ff., 286-8; Combellack, F. M., ‘Homer and Hector’, AJP 65 (1944), 209-43Google Scholar. But Erbse, H., ‘Ilias und Patroclie’, Hermes 111 (1983), 1–15 Google Scholar thinks it at least possible that the role of Patroclus has been much expanded.
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9. In all this discussion it must be borne in mind that the book-divisions are unlikely to be the work of the poet. They are first attested in Alexandrian times, and may well be the work of the school of Aristarchus (Janko 1992, 31; for an earlier date, West, S., The Ptolemaic Papyri of Homer (Cologne-Opladen, 1965), 18–25 Google Scholar, cf. S. West 1988, 39 f.). Their inadequacy has been strenuously asserted by Taplin 1992, 13, 285-93. It is a major defect of Stanley 1993 that so many of his analyses assume the division goes back to the poet. On the ancient titles given to books or episodes see Stanley 1993, 418 n. 133.
10. 2.699, 721-6, cf. 686-94. In general on the Catalogue see Kirk’s commentary, i. 168-87,237-40.
11. Ø. Andersen, Die Diomedesgestalt in der Ilias (Symb. Osl. Suppl. 25, Oslo, 1978) is a detailed study of Diomedes’ role. See also Reichel 1994, 217-30.
12. The quotation is from Taplin 1992, 253. See further Redfield 1975, 206-12, Macleod 1982, 28-32.
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14. 3. 161-80; 24. 762-75, esp. 767, 771-2.
15. Other ways in which Hector and Achilles are contrasted are discussed below, pp. 49-52.
16. Griffin 1980, 3-6 and 23 overstates the case against Paris. On p. 23 he is mistaken in saying that the wound Paris inflicts on Diomedes is ‘superficial’ (see 19. 48 f.).
17. Macleod 1982, 22 n. 2.
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24. 12. 60ff, 80, 210ff, 13. 725ff., 18. 249-313. See Schadewaldt 1943, 104-6; Redfield 1975, 272-7; Bannert 1988, 71-81; Reichel 1994, 175-82.
25. The simile applied to Priam at 24. 480-4 brings out the extraordinary nature of his situation: see Macleod’s note.
26. For further analysis of corresponding scenes of this type, see Schadewaldt 1943, Taplin 1992.
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28. 1985, ix - though he goes on to allow that ‘such dimensions undeniably exist’.
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30. Morris 1986 and van Wees 1992, 78-89 argue that the epics serve to ‘legitimize’ kingly rule (similarly Janko 1992, 38). This works well with the Thersites-episode, but surely does not represent the primary purpose of the poems.
31. See further Thalmann, W. G., ‘Thersites: Comedy, scapegoat, and heroic ideology in the Iliad ’, TAPA 118 (1988), 1–28 Google Scholar; Halliwell, S., ‘The Uses of Laughter in Greek Culture’, CQ 41 (1991), 279-96CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at p. 282; Reichel 1994, 106 n. 9.
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33. In the Cycle the solution was magical: Cypria fr. 20 Allen; cf. Griffin 1977, 40-1.
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35. Janko ad loc. defends Hector’s success in crossing the ditch by appealing to an earlier passage where Apollo opened the way for the Trojan attack (15. 355-8), but the lines still seem difficult.
36. Fundamental treatment by Fenik 1968; cf. also Krischer 1971, Kirk 1976, ch. 3; Latacz 1977, Mueller 1984, ch. 3 (a very useful brief account), Kirk 1990, 15-27. Willcock, M. M., ‘Battle Scenes in the Aeneid ’, PCPS n.s. 29 (1983), 87–99 Google Scholar compares Homeric and Virgilian battle-scenes.
37. The brief reference to ambushes by Idomeneus in 13. 275-87 (cf. 1. 226f.) is abnormal. Contrast the Odyssey, and see further A. T. Edwards 1985, 18ff.
38. For another reason for the dropping of this motif see Edwards (see n. 19 above), 57. Edwards 1987, 261 thinks even Sarpedon’s uncertainty is a stock motif, cf. 5. 175-6.
39. See Griffin 1980, passim, e.g. 48-9.
40. Taplin 1990; Reichel 1994, 198-203.
41. Bowra 1961, ch. 3; cf. his The Greek Experience (London, 1957), ch. 2; also the same author’s ‘The meaning of a heroic age’, in Kirk 1964, 22-47.
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49. Again the terminology derives from Adkins, e.g. 1960, 31-46.
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58. Achilles to Hector, 22. 346-7; cf. 4. 34-6, Zeus to Hera on her hatred for the Trojans; also 24. 212-13, Hecuba on Achilles. See Redfield 1975, 197-9; Griffin 1980, 20.
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61. E.g. 4. 473-89 (well discussed by Schein 1984, 73-6), 5.152-8 (the bereaved father), 11.241-7 (the bride left behind); more examples in Griffin 1980, ch. 4. For similes used to enhance the pathos of death see e.g. 8.306-7; Porter, D. H., ‘Violent juxtaposition in the similes of the Iliad ’, CJ 68 (1972), 11–21 Google Scholar.
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63. It is misguided to lay too much stress on the phrases ‘unseemly acts’ and ‘harsh deeds’ (22.395, 23.24, 176), used to describe Achilles’ actions (as is done by e.g. Bowra 1930, 21, Segal 1971, 13); these phrases do not necessarily convey moral criticisms. See Griffin 1980, 85; Vermeule 1979, 234 n. 11; Hainsworth 1993, 49-50, Richardson 1993 ad loc.
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71. 18. 117; 3. 243-4; iv. 561ff.; cf. xi. 299-304, on Castor and Pollux. See M. L. West on Hesiod, WD 166-7; Griffin 1977, 42.
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76. For one particularly complex case, Aphrodite and Helen in Iliad 3, see p. 83 below. Another in which psychic intervention is clearly involved, and which seems to involve some distortion of the mortal’s ‘natural’ reactions, is Athena’s prompting of Penelope to show herself to the suitors in Odyssey xviii, a controversial scene (see Rutherford 1992, 29-33).
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88. For the scholia see Richardson 1980,273-4. Moderns who use the term hubris (a word remarkably rare in the Iliad) are listed and criticized by Fisher, N. R. E., Hubris. A study in the values of honour and shame in ancient Greece (Warminster, 1992), 177-8Google Scholar (now the definitive treatment of this difficult term).
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90. On Achilles generally see the very full bibliography in Reichel 1994, 99 n. 1; also Zanker 1994.
91. Much rhetorical play is made with this phrase: see 1.91, 244, 412, 2. 82, 16.271 f., 23.891, etc.
92. This formulation can stand, even if the case for informality of command structure pressed by Taplin 1990 is accepted in full.
93. See further my remarks in 1982, 157-8, and context.
94. Schadewaldt 1944 (rev. 1965), 234-67; Griffin 1980, 163-4.
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99. Edwards’ commentary is invaluable on book 19, which earlier treatments often underrated; also valuable is Taplin 1992, 203-18. On the importance of feasting together see Griffin 1980, 14-21, an excellent section.
100. For a different approach see Seaford 1994, 159-80, who lays much emphasis on the importance of ritual in re-integrating Achilles into the community.