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Book Eleven
of his exploits should balance those of Agamemnon, but the focus of attention
in this book is the Achaeans, and the story of Hektor's attack will be
told from their viewpoint. Accordingly Hektor's aristeia is compressed to
minimal dimensions. To compensate, as it were, for his scale, and to assert
Hektor's furious rampage, it is ornamented by three similes: 292-3 (dogs),
297-8, 305-8 (storms). The rally is a regular feature of the Iliadic battle, cf.
8.173fT., 15.48417. and Fenik, TBS 90, and important for the manner in
which it is conceived. It is a war of movement (except when specifically
described as oraSiri vauivn) with copious use of missile weapons. Note the
themes of the surrounded warrior (40 iff.) and the fighting retreat (544^).
284 v6ai: v6CT