Broken Horses and Broken Heroes: The Last Word of the Iliad.
As a bearer of meaning, the epithet that closes the Iliad has been largely overlooked. However, if we read ίππόδαμος ("breaker of horses") as a significant expression, encompassing an action and an object, we can gain appreciation of its closural (and anti-closural) force while confronting the ideol...
| Publicado en: | Classical World Vol. 115; no. 3; pp. 213 - 224 |
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Spring2022
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