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The Duel of Paris and Menelaos and the Teichoskopia in Iliad 3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2015

N. Postlethwaite
N. Postlethwaite*
Affiliation:
University of Leicester/Australian National University
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Extract

The end of Iliad 3 presents the reader with a strange spectacle. The duel between Paris and Menelaos has been summarily curtailed by the intervention of Aphrodite; Paris has been spirited away from the battlefield and deposited in his bedchamber, there to enjoy with Helen the fruits of his labours; and meanwhile Menelaos

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Antichthon , Volume 19 , 1985 , pp. 1 - 6
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Copyright © Australasian Society for Classical Studies 1985

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References

1 Quotations throughout are from the O.C.T. of D.B. Monro and Allen, T.W. The translations are from Lattimore, R.The Iliad of Homer (Chicago 1971).Google Scholar

2 Cf. Kirk, G.S. ‘The Formal Duels in Books 3 and 7 of the Iliad’ in Fenik, Bernard C. (ed.), Homer: Tradition and Invention (Leiden 1978), 23.Google Scholar It was Leaf’s view that originally the duel had no place here, and that this slot was occupied by the duel of Hektor and Aias which was moved to book 7 to accommodate the Paris-Menelaos duel; Leaf, W.The Iliad (1900), 118.Google Scholar

3 For example during the quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon in book 1, it is Athene who convinces Achilles that greater reward will accrue from not killing Agamemnon.

4 Leaf, W.The Iliad (1886), 87;Google Scholarcf. Owen, E.T.The Story of the Iliad (Ann Arbor 1966), 34–35.Google Scholar

5 E.g. Leaf, W.The Iliad (1900), 117:Google Scholar ‘With the third book begins a distinct section of the Iliad, extending to 4.222: the story of the duel of Paris and Menelaos, and its sequel, the treacherous wounding of Menelaos by Pandaros in spite of the treaty. The section contains two subordinate [my emphasis] episodes: the Teichoskopia…’; cf. Hooker, J.T.Homer Iliad III(Bristol 1979), 2:Google Scholar ‘Before the duel there is inserted [my emphasis]‘ the Teichoskopia’; G.S. Kirk (op. cit., note 2, 26) calls the Teichoskopia a ‘digression’.

6 Kakridis, 33.

7 Sophocles, Trachiniae 508–530;Google ScholarHomer, Odyssey 21.Google Scholar

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