Many of the structural and plot questions of the Iliad’s first third can be categorized as anxiety about anachronism, specifically the events that occur within books 2-8 that more ‘logically’ occur prior to the beginning of the Iliad. These include the listing of all the combatants (the catalogue of ships), the teikhoskopia (the viewing from … Continue reading Rewriting the Plot: What The Structure of the Iliad’s First Third Accomplishes