12-19-2005, 12:34 AM
Well, there is Ajax's 'Shield Like a Tower / wall' from Iliad 7.219-221; 11.485 and 17.128. ('Ajax approached bearing his shield.
It was like a tower made of bronze, with seven layers, each one of ox-hide') This could not really be understood in any way circular (although it does have a central boss a few lines later).
Which of course brings us to the whole was Homer describing contemporary warfare or a (slightly misguided) understanding of how warfare must have been waged 300+ years earlier.
Cheers
Murray
PS - I was Odysseus - but that was probably deliberate!
It was like a tower made of bronze, with seven layers, each one of ox-hide') This could not really be understood in any way circular (although it does have a central boss a few lines later).
Which of course brings us to the whole was Homer describing contemporary warfare or a (slightly misguided) understanding of how warfare must have been waged 300+ years earlier.
Cheers
Murray
PS - I was Odysseus - but that was probably deliberate!
Murray K Dahm
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\'\'\'\'No matter how many you kill, you cannot kill your successor\'\'\'\' - Seneca to Nero - Dio 62
\'\'\'\'There is no way of correcting wrongdoing in those who think that the height of virtue consists in the execution of their will\'\'\'\' - Ammianus Marcellinus 27.7.9
