Abstract
This study offers a thorough re-examination of the claim that the Doloneia is a major interpolation in the Iliad, since the horses of Rhesus stolen by the two Achaean spies in Iliad 10 are not used by Diomedes to win the chariot race in the Funeral Games in honor of Patroclus in Iliad 23. It is argued that this claim is wrong. Diomedes wins with the semi-divine Trojan horses he has stolen from Aeneas in Iliad 5, i. e. with the best horses after Achilles’ divine horses which are not used in the chariot race. Aeneas’ horses are the only ones that can defeat Eumelus’ excellent mares, which have been called the second-best Achaean horses in Il. 2.763–764.
About the author
Christos C. Tsagalis is Professor of Greek at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is the author of: Epic Grief: Personal Laments in Homer’s Iliad (2004); The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics (2008); Inscribing Sorrow: Fourth-Century Attic Funerary Epigrams (2008); From Listeners to Viewers: Space in theIliad (2012); Ομηρικές μελέτες: προφορικότητα διακειμενικότητα, νεοανάλυση (2016); Early Greek Epic Fragments: Genealogical and Antiquarian Epic (2017); Τέχνη ραψωδική: η απαγγελία της επικής ποίησης από την αρχαϊκήέως την αυτοκρατορική εποχή (2018); Omero, Iliade, vol. I: Libri IX–XII (forthcoming). He has also co-edited with F. Montanari and A. Rengakos the Brill’s Companion to Hesiod (2009) and with M. Fantuzzi The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception (2015). He is co-editor (with Jonathan Ready) of the Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic and (with Patrick Finglass and Simon Malloch) of the series Key Perspectives on Classical Research.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Margalit Finkelberg and Antonios Rengakos who have read this paper, made valuable comments, and helped me in various ways.
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