Ashamed and Afraid: The Rhetoric of Kleos in Iliad 7

Homer, Iliad 7.81-93 “But I kill one of you—and Apollo grants me glory,Then once I strip off your weapons, I will take them to holy TroyAnd I will hang them on the temple of far-shooting Apollo.But I will return the body to the well-benched ships,And the Achaeans with the long hair will bury him.They will … Continue reading Ashamed and Afraid: The Rhetoric of Kleos in Iliad 7