Abstract

IT has long been recognized that Circe's instructions to Odysseus at Od. 10. 516–40 were composed after their fulfilment at 11. 2 3–50.2 Something similar in Iliad 9 seems to have been overlooked. Agamemnon–s offer to Achilles at 122–57 is reported by Odysseus at 264–99 in more or less the same words