... argue that water emerges as an especially mobile and adaptive medium for expressing the transformation that takes place between self and simile in Homer. In the Iliad , similes are well-known for bringing weather, waves, and other aspects of the natural environment into the poem, whereas in the Odyssey...

...Jonathan L. Ready This article focuses on those Iliadic characters who fall in battle to the poem’s major heroes. Homer has various ways to make these characters minor, such as through processes of obscuring or typification or by focusing on a specific body part. By making a character minor...