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Homer and the Simile at Sea

Alex Purves
Journal: Classical Antiquity
Classical Antiquity (2024) 43 (1): 97–123.
https://doi.org/10.1525/ca.2024.43.1.97
Published: 01 April 2024
... of figurative language (closer to metaphor and associated with grief) that takes place in the depths, through readings of scenes in Books 18 and 24 of the Iliad and Archilochus fragment 13. Poseidon, Shaker of the Earth, drove on a great wave, that was terrible and rough, and it curled over and broke down...
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“Charaxus Arrived with a Full Ship!” The Poetics of Welcome in Sappho's Brothers Song and the Charaxus Song Cycle

Peter A. O'Connell
Journal: Classical Antiquity
Classical Antiquity (2018) 37 (2): 236–266.
https://doi.org/10.1525/ca.2018.37.2.236
Published: 01 October 2018
...Peter A. O'Connell By analyzing the parallels between Sappho's Brothers Song and archaic Greek songs of welcome, especially Archilochus fr. 24 West, this essay offers a new interpretation of the Brothers Song. It clarifies that ἔλθην in the first preserved stanza represents an original aorist...
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