One might be forgiven for asking what I could possibly have left to say about Iliad 12. The big topics are the future discussion of the destruction of the walls around the Achaeans’ ships, the conflict over bird omens between Polydamas and Hektor, Sarpedon’s famous speech to Glaukos in the middle of the book about … Continue reading Hektor and the Beast: More Similes in Iliad 12