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Iliad 7.293ff.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson
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University of Illinois, Urbana
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Extract

Wordplay involving names is routine in Homer. Less common, but not rare, is wordplay that does not have anything to do with names. Thus, at Iliad 1.290f. there is a play on ; at 24.611 an implicit play on (people)/ (stone); at Odyssey 12.45–46 a possible play on .

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , May 1997 , pp. 292
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1997

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References

1 On the last, see Bright, D. F., Mnemosyne 30 (1977), 423–426. Prof. D. Sansone reminded me of this article.CrossRefGoogle Scholar