Re: Odyssey question

By the way, virtuoso archery even without pharmaka can shoot a lot of people pretty fast. There's a guy called Lars Andersen who has mastered the art -- video at https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DBEG-ly9tQGk&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40LSV.UKY.EDU%7Cc15fa2e7d5b147aa30c308d72e248544%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637028606731568058&sdata=pQZtHt9cV9bzFzzfMqmrXn20wh1h3bHnY22yJJ2djRE%3D&reserved=0. 
For a more comical look at Odyssean archery, see this: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2mUKauErjfM&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40LSV.UKY.EDU%7Cc15fa2e7d5b147aa30c308d72e248544%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637028606731568058&sdata=4XGc%2FJeDKE13DeGWovyYyzXRrQHIL1uTF%2F9Vo9r%2B%2F2k%3D&reserved=0.
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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
> > >
> >
>