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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...

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Published in:Indogermanische Forschungen: Zeitschrift für Indogermanistik und allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Vol. 115; pp. 135 - 149
Format: Article
Published: De Gruyter 2010
Subjects:
Hapax legomenon
Iliad of Homer
Translators
Translating & interpreting
Epithets
Eagles in literature
Zoological nomenclature
Omens
Terms & phrases
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