Re: Odyssey question

On p. 107 of Stephanie West's commentary of Odyssey 1 (the lemma is 257
ff.):

"In the scholia it is suggested that the poet was here preparing the ground
for Odysseus' slaughter of the suitors, since the use of arrow-poison would
make it much easier for every shot to prove fatal; this may well be right."

Then on p. 108: "See further F. Dirlmeier, 'Die Giftpfeile des Odysseus'
SHAW 1966, 2, Clay, Wrath, 71-2."

Dimitri

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 8:31 PM Jean Alvares <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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
> >
>