Two unexplained terms in Iliad: πεϱχνόν and μόϱφνον.
The article focuses on the two unexplained terms in "The Iliad," the Homeric near-hapaxes πεϱχνόν and μό&3#x03F1;φνον, which have been interpreted by translators as epithets for the eagle and transliterated as chromonyms. It discusses the possibility of assuming that the original formal value in the...
| Publicado en: | Indogermanische Forschungen: Zeitschrift für Indogermanistik und allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Vol. 115; pp. 135 - 149 |
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De Gruyter
2010
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on the two unexplained terms in "The Iliad," the Homeric near-hapaxes πεϱχνόν and μό&3#x03F1;φνον, which have been interpreted by translators as epithets for the eagle and transliterated as chromonyms. It discusses the possibility of assuming that the original formal value in the chromonym is not actually shown, as πεϱχνόν happens in the literature. It says that μόϱφνον is an unusual name for the eagle indicating a reference to the πεϱχνόν. It suggests that the eagle can be interpreted as an example of omen-name of zooaptonym. |
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