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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Published in:	Classical World Vol. 115; no. 3; pp. 213 - 224
Main Author:	Press, Alexander
Format:	Article
Published:	Johns Hopkins University Press Spring2022
Subjects:	Iliad of Homer Epithets Antonomasia Hector (Legendary character) Legends in literature Human-animal relationships
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost