Chapter 5. Anger’s Aggression: The Wrath of Feud {96|97} I began this study with a close look at the terms of Calchas’s definition (Il . 1.80-83), especially because he uses three categories to define the two different kinds of anger, khólos and kótos. Those three categories were time, social status, and the body. We proceeded to examine the features of Homeric diction that characterize kótos in the… Read more
Chapter 4. Anger’s History: Κότος and Etymology {88|89} With Calchas as my guide, I have shown kótos to be an anger, that, in the Iliad, relates to the fall of Troy, while in the Odyssey it calls to mind Odysseus’s vengeance against the suitors. The method, thus far, has been to focus on the diction of Homeric poetry, its phraseology and narrative contexts. In the remaining two… Read more
Chapter 3. Κότος and Social Status {78|79} At the beginning of this study, I suggested that kótos was identified in Calchas’s definition both by the length of time that it lasts and by the social status of the angered party. We have seen that the use of télos, metópisthen, and other related terminology gives kótos a sense of extraordinary duration. The issue of the term’s relation to… Read more
Chapter Two. Forms and Formulae Kôtos in Its Noun Forms {32|33} The formal details concerning the noun kótos are straightforward. The substantive kótos is attested six times in the Iliad and the Odyssey, each time in the accusative case. [1] Each of these instances occurs at the hephthemimeral caesura, in other words, always in the second hemistich of the verse and… Read more
Chapter 1. The Prophet Defines Within the first hundred lines of the Iliad, the Achaean prophet, Calchas, presents a definition of anger (Il. 1.74-83). The immediate context is that Achilles has just called an assembly in response to the suffering of the Achaeans. So great is their suffering that, Achilles suggests, they are on the brink of entirely abandoning their efforts on the Trojan plain (Il. 1.59-67). Read more
Introduction: Homeric Anger {1} Across the landscape of Homeric studies there are monuments that demonstrate how central anger is to whatever the early Greeks—audience and performers alike—imagined the Homeric narratives to be about. By our own various references to the powerful concept of anger, we seem to wave it as a magic wand for conjuring meaning. The titles of some of the most insightful works in Homeric… Read more
Abbreviations AALM = Atti dell ’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei AAntH = Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae AC = Acta Classica AJP = American Journal of Philology AnnCagl = Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università di Cagliari BLS = Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society BSL = Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris CA = Classical Antiquity… Read more
Acknowledgments Do mo bhean chéile agus do m’inion7i gcuimhne m’athair léannta fil súil nglais fégbas Érinn dar a hais; noco n-aceba íarmo-thá firu Érenn nách a mná -“Colum Cille” (EIL 29) {x|xi} At the end of this project I encountered an image showing ira besting patientia (Rosenwein 1998, 15). On… Read more
Foreword Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches {viii|ix} Building on the foundations of scholarship within the disciplines of philology, philosophy, history, and archaeology, this series spans the continuum of Greek traditions extending from the second millennium BCE to the present, not just the Archaic and Classical periods. The aim is to enhance perspectives by applying various disciplines to problems that have in the past been treated as the… Read more
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