Refusing an Odyssean Destiny: The End of the Iliad and the κλέος of Achilles
back Giuseppe Lentini Who is the best of the Achaeans? As Greg has shown in his much-admired book, this question dominates as well as unites the Homeric poetic tradition. While it is an “overall Iliadic theme that Achilles is the best of the Achaeans”, “in contrast to the Iliad, it is an overall theme of the Odyssey that indeed Odysseus is áristos Akhaiôn ‘best of the Achaeans’” [… Read more