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Book Eleven
is the same Akamas - at 16.342, but Agenor in spite of his commonplace
name is much the most distinguished, with thirteen mentions in the Iliad. He
was slain by Neoptolemos in the Little Iliad (fr. 15 Davies = Paus. 10.27.1).
Two other sons of An tenor appear in this book, 22 iff. The Antenorids are
elsewhere often associated with Aineias, but have only a peripheral role in
the Iliad, not commensurate with their rank and dignity, see Espermann,
Anterior, Theano, Antenoriden. Antenor himself is of the generation of Priam,
too old for war, and appears as the leader of the Trojan peace party. His
politics avail him little in the Iliad, where seven of his sons are killed.
61 TT&VTOCT' ei'0T|v: as an epithet of the ship EICTTI appears to mean 'wellbalanced',
a quality that would also be useful in a shield, but the addition
of the adverb Tr&VToae makes the sense primarily 'round', like EUKUKAOS. The
prothetic e- of 6ioT)v is found only in the feminine of Taos (except for an
Hesychian gloss iiaov dcyocOov) and may have arisen within the tradition
of the Kunstsprache by false division of this formula (< TT&VTOCTE pkrnv). The
Mycenaean dialect has wi-so-wo-pa-na (PY Sh 740), where piapo- seems a
certain transcription, but also an obscure e-wi-su-zo-ko (KN Se 965, etc.),
which may represent epio-p-.
62—73 The compression of the narrative of the Trojan deployment followed
by the truncated account of the first stages of the battle brings four
similes together in less than a dozen lines. The brevity of the second (66)
and third (72) make an effect very different from the 'majestic prologue'
(Leaf) beginning at 2.455 ( see nn 0- The comparison with wolves (72)
especially craves extension if it is not to seem pointless.
62-6 This short scene expresses in concise form the Trojan advance to
battle. KeAeucov (65) suggests comparison with the commander's harangue,
e.g. 16.200-9. The simile of the star, which illustrates the gleam of armour
at 5.5-8, 19.381, and 22.26-31, is unusually applied to Hektor's appearance
and disappearance. At 22.30 the star is a KOCKOV