Re: Odyssey question

The Lars Andersen video was debunked a long time ago.

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On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 10:04 AM Owen Cramer <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7Cb2f791a3e842403853fd08d72e27eb60%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637028621293617429&amp;sdata=wmQqPGKmcwZU9vhA91jSYquH%2FYlINc90lARynpR%2FmKg%3D&amp;reserved=0.
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> 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&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7Cb2f791a3e842403853fd08d72e27eb60%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637028621293617429&amp;sdata=T2uVjbzkOhZvh09%2FvYU%2FPUDTilgzCxJfTGBCiVZiK%2F4%3D&amp;reserved=0
> .
> OC
>
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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
> > > >
> > >
> >
>