Wounding & Death in the Iliad
Subtitle: Homeric Techniques of Description
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Published: September 17, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780715629833
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Prose & writers: classical, early & medieval; BCE to c 500 CE; History and criticism; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Trojan War; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Literature: Classics; Homer; Ancient and Classical; History; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Wounds and injuries in literat; Wounds and injuries in literature; Epic poetry, Greek; Iliad; Literature and the war
First sentence: But Idomeneus gets his blow in first and Asius, who was recently so full of confidence, is now lying, felled like a tree, stretched out in front of his horses and chariot and, groaning (or even bellowing) loudly, clutching at the bloody dust.