From AllenAmet@aol.com Mon Mar 6 20:40:02 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id UAA46850 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 20:40:01 -0800 From: AllenAmet@aol.com Received: from imo22.mx.aol.com (imo22.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.66]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id UAA13142 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 20:40:00 -0800 Received: from AllenAmet@aol.com by imo22.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v25.3.) id d.9a.1e83be4 (1814) for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 23:39:55 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <9a.1e83be4.25f5e21b@aol.com> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 23:39:55 EST Subject: Re: The Song of Achilles To: classics@u.washington.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 64 In a message dated 00-03-06 22:41:42 EST, you write: << Perhaps inadvertently combining those two questions, the class last week, unsatisfied with the statement that he was singing about heroes, or mens' fame, asked what song Achilles was singing when the guests arrived in Book 9. Diana Wright >> *************** As with Helen's undescribed beauty, the specific references to other men's glory is deliberately left vague. Who could compare with Achilles? It is a reverie he sings to himself (=Patroklos). Homer knew when less is more... allen koenigsberg bc .