... of the University of California Homer Odyssey Iliad epic Archilochus mourning simile octopus Thetis Nereids wave water weather sea ἀβάπτιστος εἶμι φελ- λὸς ὣς ὑπὲρ ἕρκος ἅλμας.   Undipped I will travel cork- like over the surface of the sea. —Pind. Pyth. 2.80–81 In her poetry...

...Sarah Olsen At a crucial moment in Euripides’ Andromache , the title character throws her hands (περὶ χεῖρε βαλοῦσα, 115) around a statue of the goddess Thetis and laments the losses that have brought her to a point of desperation and despair. When Thetis appears at the end of the play, she answers...