Re: Odyssey question

Thanks. That was just what was called for.

On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 10:19 AM Dimitri Nakassis <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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
> > >
> >
>