Re: Odyssey question
Jean Alvares <[email protected]> Sat, 31 Aug 2019 09:31:19 +0700
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wow, never thought of that! On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 9:05 AM Ralph Hancock <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is my absolutely naive response, and the point may have been made (or > rubbished) a thousand times without my knowing it. The Greeks' troubles > begin, at the start of the Iliad, with Apollo firing poisoned (or infected, > or magical) arrows at them. And at the end of the Odyssey the situation is > resolved by one Greek's arrows (if not poisoned, at least used trickily). > So is Athena's reference to poisoned arrows part of a running theme, a > means of progressing the story? > > RH >