Achilles takes responsibility for the death of Patroclus. As Zeus summarized what was to come, in Book XV, so Thetis summarizes what has happened so far.As on the shield, a dance may be better shown through the path of its movements than through a snapshot of the dancers.Homer’s account of the shield of Achilles is an instance of ekphrasis.In 2019, I analyzed Book XVIII into seven parts, which I described only briefly and then I developed seven points, sometimes straying far from Homer. Dogs do that to me sometimes, as I walk around Sarıyer. The dogs get up close and bark, then run away. The shield gives us also such a scene as Homer uses for his similes: from a herd of cattle, two lions take down a bull, and dogs cannot drive them off. And round about his mighty shoulders Athene flung her tasselled aegis,Īnd around his head the fair goddess set thick a golden cloud,Īnd forth from the man made blaze a gleaming fire.” ( Iliad 18.203–6)
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