The Death of Patroklos: A Study in Typology

Achaians Achilles Agamemnon Apollo Asios associations Athena battle blow Book 16 Brock Chapter collocation connected context Cretan death scene Demeter Demophoon denotes diction down-turned hand employed epic episode epithet Euphorbos Eurykleia Eurypylos fact follows formula funeral gates gesture gods Greek grief Hades Hainsworth Hektor Hence Hera hero Homeric Hymn Homeric poems horses human sacrifice Idomeneus Iliad instance Ithaka killed Lapiths lightning lines meaning Meriones Metaneira metrical mock scene mortal occurs Odysseus Parry passage Patroklos pertaining Phaiakian ship Phaiakians poet Poseidon Pylos restricted ritual substitute role sacrificial motif Scheria simile slapping sequence slaps his thighs spear speech strikes struck suggests themes therapōn thigh-slapping sequence thighs with down-turned thunderbolt tradition Trojans Typhoeus typological Whitman word Zeus ἄρ γὰρ δὲ ἐκ ἐν ἔπος Ζεύς θεράπων καὶ μὲν μετάφρενον εὐρέε μιν μοι νήπιος οἱ οὐ πεπλήγετο μηρώ πλῆξεν τε χειρὶ χειρί καταπρηνεῖ χερσὶ καταπρηνέσσ ὢ πεπλήγετο ὡς