Homer’s Iliad. Book XVI

440 Pages·2018·2.043 MB·English

by  Brügger, Claude

Homer’s Iliad
The Basel Commentary
Homer’s Iliad
The Basel Commentary

Editors
Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz
Managing Editor
Magdalene Stoevesandt
General Editor of the English Edition
S. Douglas Olson
Homer’s Iliad
The Basel Commentary
Edited by
Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz
Book XVI
By Claude Brügger
Translated by Benjamin W. Millis and Sara Strack and
edited by S. Douglas Olson
The publication of Homer’s Iliad: The Basel Commentary has been made possible
by the kind financial support from the following organizations:
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft (FAG), Basel
L. & Th. La Roche Stiftung, Basel
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Table of Contents
Preface to the German Edition  VII
Preface to the English Edition  VIII
Notes for the Reader (including list of abbreviations)  IX
24 Rules Relating to Homeric Language (R)  1
Overview of the Action in Book 16  9
Commentary  11
Bibliographic Abbreviations  377

Preface to the German Edition
The writing and publication of the present commentary on Book 16 of the Iliad
would not have been possible without the sympathetic support provided by
numerous colleagues. First and foremost, I wish to offer warm thanks to the
project directors – Prof. Dr. Joachim Latacz and Prof. Dr. Anton Bierl – as well as
to team members Marina Coray, Martha Krieter-Spiro, Magdalene Stoevesandt and
Katharina Wesselmann for their cordial collaboration, which continued for the
past six years of the project. My thanks are due our experts for innumerable valu-
able bits of advice, suggestions and corrections: Rudolf Führer, Fritz Graf, Martin
A. Guggisberg, Irene J. F. de Jong, Sebastiaan R. van der Mije, René Nünlist, Jürgen
v. Ungern-Sternberg, Rudolf Wachter and Martin L. West (†). The remaining gaps,
inaccuracies and mistakes are of course fully my own responsibility. I thank my
colleagues in the ‘Rosshof’, the joint premises for Classical Studies at Basel, for
both lively academic exchange and all our shared moments ‘beside and without
Homer’. I also wish to thank the team at the Classical Studies Library and the Basel
University Library for easy collaboration. Thanks are due Xenia Buchwald and
Elena Iakovou at the University of Göttingen for scrupulous corrections near the
end of the project phase; they were referred to us by ‘our’ publishers de Gruyter
(Berlin). For this, and for the careful printing process, I offer warm thanks to the
responsible parties at the publishing house – among them Katharina Legutke and
Serena Pirrotta.
Enormous gratitude is due the Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung
der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, the Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wis-
senschaft und Kultur, the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel, the Frey-
Clavel-Stiftung Basel, the Max Geldner-Stiftung Basel and the University of Basel
for their long-standing sponsorship of the Basel Homer Commentary.
Last, but not least, I thank my family for their ‘Homeric’ patience over the
course of my academic career, which is now coming to an end.
In the present volume, which is based – as is the case throughout the series –
on Martin West’s Greek text of the Iliad (Bibliotheca Teubneriana 1998/2000),
relevant bibliographic items are frequently listed in rather large numbers; this
is designed to enable readers to supplement, deepen or modify via their own
reading the interpretations offered here. Even where not mentioned, Richard
Janko’s commentary (Cambridge 1992) – solid, full of acute observations and
often playful – is always indispensable.
Basel, March 2015 Claude Brügger
Preface to the English Edition
Thanks are due the translation team, Dr. Sara Strack and Dr. Benjamin W. Millis
with the editorship of Prof. Dr. S. Douglas Olson, not merely for translating with
great diligence and expertise the German original (which is often linguistically
complex) into English but also for correcting errors and omissions that had been
overlooked in the German edition. I sincerely thank the above-mentioned for
their pleasant collaboration and excellent work.
The present English edition would not have been possible without the gen-
erous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Freiwillige Akademische
Gesellschaft and the L. & Th. La Roche-Stiftung. The Walter de Gruyter publishing
house in Berlin and Boston also contributed substantially to the happy comple-
tion of this book. For their long-standing and fruitful collaboration in the context
of the Basel Homeric commentary, I warmly thank Prof. Dr. Joachim Latacz and
Prof. Dr. Anton Bierl as well as my colleagues Marina Coray, Martha Krieter-Spiro,
Magdalene Stoevesandt and Katharina Wesselmann.
Basel, December 2017 Claude Brügger
Notes for the Reader
1. In the commentary, four levels of explanation are distinguished graphically:
a) The most important explanations for users of all audiences are set in
regular type. Knowledge of Greek is not required here; Greek words
are given in transliteration (exception: lemmata from LfgrE, see
COM 41 [1]).
b) More detailed explanations of the Greek text are set in medium type.
These sections correspond to a standard philological commentary.
c) Specific information on particular sub-fields of Homeric scholarship is
set in small type.
d) The ‘elementary section’, designed to facilitate an initial approach to
the text especially for school and university students, appears beneath a
dividing line at the foot of the page.
The elementary section discusses Homeric word forms in particu-
lar, as well as prosody and meter. It is based on the ‘24 Rules Relating to
Homeric Language’, to which reference is made with the abbreviation ‘R’.
Particularly frequent phenomena (e.g. the lack of an augment) are not
noted throughout but are instead recalled ca. every 50 verses. — Informa-
tion relating to Homeric vocabulary is largely omitted; for this, the reader
is referred to the specialized dictionaries of Cunliffe and Autenrieth/
Kaegi.
Complex issues are addressed in the elementary section as well
as the main commentary; they are briefly summarized in the elemen-
tary section and discussed in greater detail in the main commentary.
Such passages are marked in the elementary section with an arrow
(↑). In contrast, references of the type ‘cf. 73n.’ in the elementary
section refer to notes within the elementary section itself, never to
the main commentary.
2. The chapters of the Prolegomena volume are cited by the following abbrevia-
tions:
CG/CH Cast of characters in the Iliad: Gods/Human Beings
COM Introduction: Commenting on Homer
FOR Formulaity and Orality
G Grammar of Homeric Greek
HT History of the text
M Homeric Meter (including prosody)
MYC Homeric-Mycenaean Word Index
NTHS New Trends in Homeric Schorlarship
X   Iliad 16
xxxP Superscript ‘P’ following a term refers to the definitions of terms
in ‘Homeric Poetics in Keywords’.
STR Structure of the Iliad
In addition:
R refers to the ‘24 Rules Relating to Homeric Language’ in the
present commentary (below, pp. 1  ff.).
3. Textual criticism
The commentary is based on the Teubner text of M. L. West. In some pas-
sages, the commentators favor decisions differing from that edition. In these
cases, both versions of the lemma are provided; West’s text is shown first in
square brackets, followed by the version favored in the commentary.
4. English lemmata
The English lemmata in the commentary are taken from the translation of
R. Lattimore. In places where the commentators favor a different rendering,
both versions are of the lemma are provided; the rendering of Lattimore is
shown first in square brackets, followed by the version favored in the com-
mentary.
5. Quotations of non-English secondary literature
Quotations from secondary literature originally written in German, French or
Italian are given in English translation; in such cases, the bibliographic ref-
erence is followed by the notation ‘transl.’ In the case of terms that are espe-
cially important or open to misinterpretation, the original is given in square
brackets.
6. Formulaic language
On the model of ‘Ameis-Hentze(-Cauer)’, repeated verses and verse-halves
are usually noted (on this, cf. COM 30). Other formulaic elements (verse
beginning and verse end formulae in particular) are only highlighted to the
extent necessary to convey an overall impression of the formulaic character
of Homeric language.
7. Type-scenesP
For each type-scene, the commentary provides at the appropriate place an
‘ideal version’ by compiling a cumulative, numbered list of all characteristic
elements of the scene that occur in the Iliad and/or Odyssey; the numbers of
the elements actually realized in the passage in question are printed in bold.
Each subsequent occurrence refers back to this primary treatment and uses
numbering and bold print in accord with the same principle.