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A sampling of comments on Iliad Rhapsody 7

2016.08.12 /updated 2018.09.08 | By Gregory Nagy Up to now, Diomedes has been the hero who comes closest to Achilles in competing for the title ‘best of the Achaeans’. Here in Rhapsody 7, however, the focus shifts to Ajax, who responds to the challenge of Hector to fight in a duel the one hero among all the Achaeans who is truly the ‘best of the Achaeans’. As we know from… Read more