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Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion
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In this paper, I argue that the traditional narrative of Iphigenia's sacrifice lies allusively behind the opening scenes of the Iliad (1.8-487). Scholars have long suspected that this episode is evoked in Agamemnon's scathing rebuke of Calchas (1.105-8), but I contend that this is only one moment in a far more sustained allusive dialogue: both the debate over Chryseis and her eventual return to her father replay and rework the sacrifice story. The Iliad begins by recalling the start of the whole Trojan war.
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The paper argues that the traditional story of Iphigenia’s sacrifice lies behind the opening of *Iliad* 1, not merely behind Agamemnon’s rebuke of Calchas. It contends that the quarrel over Chryseis and her return to Chryses replay and rework the Iphigenia fabula through a sustained sequence of thematic and structural parallels.
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- The paper identifies six core elements of the Iphigenia fabula (A–F) and finds all six reflected in the same order in *Iliad* 1.8–487: Agamemnon offends a deity and is punished; Calchas reveals divine anger and proposes that Agamemnon give up a prized woman; Achilles loses a potential bride; Odysseus brings the woman to her father at the altar; sacrifice occurs at the altar; and the offended deity sends a favorable wind for sailing.
- Specific correspondences include Agamemnon’s insult to Apollo and Chryses, followed by plague, as a replay of his offense against Artemis and the storm at Aulis; Calchas’s prophecy about returning Chryseis as a replay of his Aulis prophecy about Iphigenia; Odysseus leading Chryseis to Chryses at the altar (1.440–41) as an echo of bringing Iphigenia to Agamemnon; and the sacrifice at Chryse plus Apollo’s favorable wind (1.458–83) as a reworking of the Aulis sacrifice and departure.
- The paper argues that the divergences are meaningful: Chryses’ joyful reunion with his daughter and the orderly sacrifice contrast with Agamemnon’s attempted filicide, so the *Iliad* begins by distancing itself from human sacrifice and modeling proper ritual conduct.
- The allusive pattern is said to enrich characterization, especially Agamemnon’s repeated hubris and his fraught relations with Calchas and Achilles, and to map the start of the Trojan War onto the start of the poem, complementing other opening allusions such as Zeus’s plan and Helen’s abduction.
Methods
- The study is a literary and philological argument that combines neoanalysis with traditional referentiality, focusing on reworked narrative motifs rather than a fixed written source.
- It reconstructs the Iphigenia fabula from the *Cypria*, Hesiodic *Catalogue of Women*, Stesichorus, Attic tragedy, later literature, art, and scholia, then compares that sequence with a close reading of *Iliad* 1.
- The main analysis traces the six motifs in order and summarizes the parallel sequences in Tables 1 and 2; no empirical sample or statistical analysis is used.
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- Stated: the paper acknowledges that there is no direct access to pre-Homeric tradition, that post-Homeric sources may reflect Homeric influence or later developments, and that certainty about the reconstructed fabula is impossible.
- Stated: it concedes that individual correspondences may be more convincing than others, though it argues that the accumulation and shared sequence make the overall connection difficult to deny.
- Evident from the text: the argument depends on inferred audience recognition and on a reconstructed oral tradition; some parallels rely on later sources, and the claim that the Iphigenia story was known to the Homeric tradition cannot be independently proven from the *Iliad* itself.
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“It is true that the Iliad lacks any direct mention of Iphigenia”
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“In fact, the vast majority of the noun's Iliadic instantiations have this precise sense of a “boast” or “vaunt.””
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (B) Calchas discloses divine displeasure and proposes a solution: Agamemnon must give up a prized woman from his possession
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“the evidence of both art and literature suggests that it was only in the later sixth century that the Homeric poems began to dominate tradition.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > I. THE FABULA OF IPHIGENIA
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“With appropriate caution, we can thus employ post-Homeric evidence as our best available guide for potential pre-Homeric traditions.”
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“The sacrifice of Iphigenia was an old and well-established element of the Trojan war tradition.”
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“It is the repeated conjunction of these motifs in the same sequence that would have produced a distinctive and recognizable Iphigenia narrative.”
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“In this paper, I argue that the traditional narrative of Iphigenia's sacrifice lies allusively behind the opening scenes of the Iliad (1.8-487).”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > Abstract
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“The major difficulty here, however, is the fact that Odysseus's role is first explicitly attested only in fifth-century Attic tragedy”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (C) Achilles loses a potential bride
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- Not matchedcites [54] 54. ____. 2016. "Modes of Intertextuality in Homer and Bosnian Epic." In Gallo, F. ed. Omero: Quaestiones disputatae. Milan: Biblioteca ambrosiana. 123-45.
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“Even this Euripidean exception thus seems to presuppose and allude to Odysseus's involvement.”
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“But in later tradition, this role is almost always assigned to Odysseus.”
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“Agamemnon's main transgression appears to have been his boastful claim to surpass Artemis's skill as an archer.”
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“As a result of Agamemnon's impiety, Artemis was angry and-so the Proclan summary continues-stopped the Greeks from sailing by sending a storm”
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“Odysseus was thus the natural agent to fulfill Agamemnon's will, especially given the trickery involved in the Iphigenia story.”
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“Odysseus's central role in collecting Iphigenia fits very plausibly into wider patterns of the epic Trojan war tradition.”
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“Given Achilles' propensity for anger and excessive emotion elsewhere in archaic epic, it is plausible that such reactions would have already featured in the traditional fabula of the story from an early date.”
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“I have identified six separate elements of the Iphigenia fabula (indicated below by the letters A-F), all of which-as we shall see-reverberate in the narrative of Iliad 1.”
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“Proclus's terse summary of the Cypria does not specify who collected Iphigenia and brought her to Aulis: the Greeks simply send for her (μεταπεμψάμενοι, arg.8 GEF).”
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“Once Agamemnon agrees to the proposed sacrifice, the Greeks send for Iphigenia and justify the summons under the pretext that she is going to marry Achilles.”
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“Given the well-established pattern of Agamemnon's delegation, it is thus unlikely that the king was thought to collect his daughter himself in the archaic tradition.”
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“Electra reports that her father came across the deer while sporting in Artemis's sacred grove (θεᾶς | παίζων κατ᾿ ἄλσος, Soph.El. 566-67).The beast was thus sacred to the goddess and by killing it Agamemnon committed an impiety.”
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“the essence of Agamemnon's transgression is consistent across all sources: he offended Artemis through some combination of boastful arrogance and a sacrilegious disregard of the divine.”
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“By contrast, in tragedy and other later sources, the lack of substitution seems to be a pointed departure to accentuate the horror of Agamemnon's actions, especially in the context of justifying his later murder by Clytemnestra.”
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- Not matchedcites [64] 64. Dürrbach, F. 1926. Inscriptions de Délos: comptes des hiéropes (N os 290-371). Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion.
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“The antiquity of the motif is further suggested by underlying parallels with cultic rituals at Brauron and Mounychia, as well as the binding of Isaac in Semitic tradition; such ritual substitution was not alien to ancient thought.”
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- Not matchedcites [63] 63. Dué, C. 2002. Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
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“Moreover, the generality of Agamemnon's temporal adverbs suggests that he has more than one moment in mind here.”
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“I thus consider it likely that Iphigenia's substitution was an integral part of the myth from the start.”
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“Most significantly, however, the sacrifice seems to be presupposed earlier in the Iliad by Agamemnon's scathing rebuke of the seer Calchas (Il.1.105-8):”
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“In keeping with the poem's larger aesthetic priorities, the Iphigenia narrative is transplanted to the domain of indirect and allusive reference.”
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“Like at Aulis, the king hubristically offends a god of archery by both boasting and disrespecting what is sacred to him or her (Artemis's deer / Apollo's priest: cf.ἠτίμασεν ἀρητῆρα, 1.11).”
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“Given the centrality of doublets to the construction of archaic epic and myth, it is likely that this Iphigenia-Polyxena parallel has an archaic pedigree.”
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“It is thus very likely that this reproach also points to Iphigenia's sacrifice, the other major past occasion on which Calchas gave Agamemnon some terrible news.”
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“But we can further add that the tale is also integral to the larger plot and narrative of the Trojan war, which makes it even more unlikely to be a late post-Homeric accretion.”
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“But rather than seeing the Iliad's allusion to this story restricted primarily to Agamemnon's brief rebuke of Calchas, I contend that the fabula of the sacrifice underlies the whole opening of the poem.”
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“Agamemnon's words are not an isolated allusion, but rather a signpost to the wider motif transference at work in book 1.”
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“In some later sources, we explicitly hear that she provided a fair breeze.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (F) After the sacrifice, the Greeks receive a favorable wind from the offended deity and sail to Troy
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [65] 65. Edmunds, L. 2016. "Intertextuality without Texts in Archaic Greek Verse and the Plan of Zeus." SyllClass 27: 1-27. source
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“But Artemis did not just calm the storm; she also seems to have assisted the Greeks' onward journey to Troy.”
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“But this alone does not seem to account for the emotional hyperbole of Agamemnon's rebuke.”
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“However, this logic is complicated by the evidence of the Cypria, which preserves a tradition in which Agamemnon had four daughters, the three of the Iliad plus Iphigenia (fr.20 GEF = Σ Soph.El. 157).”
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“We have already seen how the king's opening words invite an audience to recall Calchas's previous prophecy, looking back to an earlier occasion on which the seer had offered unwelcome advice (1.106-8)”
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“From these mentions and Proclus's summaries, it is clear that Calchas is primarily associated in tradition with events at Aulis.”
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“These events closely correspond to the Aulis episode.”
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“Achilles presents Briseis as a desirable wife on a par with these prominent personalities of the mythical tradition.”
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“but the virulent character of these words also likely replays the king's earlier reaction.”
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“The Aulis episode in Iliad 2 relates to the other gathering at Aulis, mentioned in Proclus's Cypria summary before the Teuthranian expedition (arg.6 GEF; the Iphigenia Aulis episode features after it: arg.8 GEF).”
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“In the Iliad, however, Homer has split Calchas's solution at Aulis into two: the sacrifice of Iphigenia here becomes Agamemnon's loss of Chryseis and a separate sacrificial hecatomb”
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“His very presence here at the outset of the poem would encourage an audience to recall his major previous contribution.”
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“Particularly suggestive of events at Aulis, however, are the two verses describing the transfer of Chryseis to her father (1.440-41)”
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“Indeed, Calchas's expectation that he will anger a mighty king and cause lasting resentment (1.78-83) is likely based on his previous experience at Aulis.”
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“However, the presence of this Iphigenia allusion at the very start of the Iliad also has a greater significance for the structure of the whole poem.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > III. THE ARCHITECTURE OF HOMERIC ALLUSION
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“as well as the likely allusion to Aulis in one of the introductory hymns of the Theognidea, framing the episode as a moment of beginning (11-14: see § I (F) above).”
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“In its totality, it serves as a parallel for the large-scale motif transference surrounding Achilles' death in the second half of the Iliad.”
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“The envoys' concluding actions also match what the Greeks would have done on their first arrival to Asia Minor from Aulis: setting their ships up on props to preserve them (1.484-86).”
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“Homer's opening also looks to other major beginnings of the war.”
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“Conversely, the double mention of wind (οὖρον, 1.479; ἄνεμος, 1.481) foregrounds an outcome of the sacrifice which directly parallels that at Aulis: the appeased deity sends a favorable wind.”
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“Such Apolline involvement in the winds is very unusual: even in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, it is Zeus, not Apollo, who sends a tailwind for the Cretan sailors (Διὸς οὔρῳ, 427; ἄνεμος ... ἐκ Διὸς αἴσης, 433).”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (F) After the sacrifice, the Greeks receive a favorable wind from the offended deity and sail to Troy
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“The opening moves of the Iliad thus map closely onto the Iphigenia fabula.”
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“Contrary to common scholarly assumptions, these analeptic echoes are active from the very start of the poem.”
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“To conclude, I would like to suggest that this Iphigenia allusion is only the most extended and elaborate instance of a broader allusive strategy at the start of the Iliad.”
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“Its resolution is only implied by the passing comment that Apollo “heard” and thus “granted” Chryses' initial prayer (τοῦ δ' ἔκλυε Φοῖβος Ἀπόλλων, 1.457).”
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“In addition, he is involved in many other missions that require cunning or deception, such as the Doloneia (Il.10), his infiltration of Troy in disguise (Od.4.240-58; Il.Parv.arg.4b-d GEF) and the theft of the Palladium (Il.Parv.arg.4e GEF).”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (C) Achilles loses a potential bride
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“In the embassy of Iliad 9, he emerges as the clear leader of the group: although Nestor had asked Phoenix to take the lead (ἡγησάσθω, 9.168), it is Odysseus who”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (C) Achilles loses a potential bride
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- Not matchedcites 9.657
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“As punishment, the god inflicts a plague on the Achaeans, disrupting the war effort and causing much suffering (1.43-52).”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (A) Agamemnon offends a deity and is punished
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“In addition, he gloatingly describes how Chryseis will share his bed in Argos (1.29-31), a malicious boast that Aristarchus even athetized as”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (A) Agamemnon offends a deity and is punished
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- Not matchedcites 1.29-31
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“The Iliad begins with Agamemnon angering Apollo by dishonoring his priest Chryses, refusing to return his captive daughter Chryseis in exchange for an abundant ransom (1.8-42).”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (A) Agamemnon offends a deity and is punished
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- Not matchedcites 1.8-42
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“Chryseis's name is a patronymic, while her double description as a κούρη (1.98, 111) foregrounds her status as a daughter (cf.Dué 2002: 52-55 for the noun's traditional resonance).”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (B) Calchas discloses divine displeasure and proposes a solution: Agamemnon must give up a prized woman from his possession
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- Not matchedcites 1.98
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- Not matchedcites 1.111
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“Later in the poem Briseis herself recalls how Patroclus had promised to make her Achilles' “wedded wife” (κουριδίην ἄλοχον) back in Phthia (19.297-99)”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > References
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“He responds angrily (ὑπόδρα ἰδών, 1.148), 104 complaining of Agamemnon's hubristic behavior (ὕβριν, 1.203; ὑπεροπλίῃσι, 1.205; λωβήσαιο, 1.232;”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > References
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“He also verges once more on violence: without Athena's intervention, he would have drawn his sword against the king (1.188-94, 205) and he still ends the conversation by threatening to spill Agamemnon's blood”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > References
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“This is a rare formulaic phrase, found only twice elsewhere in archaic Greek epic of Penelope (Od. 23.232) and Mestra (Hes. fr. 43a.20”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > References
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“This is his only direct appearance in the Iliadic narrative, and he is only otherwise mentioned twice elsewhere: in Iliad 2 when Odysseus recalls his interpretation of the snake omen at Aulis (2.299-332) and again in Iliad 13 when Poseidon adopts his form as a mortal disguise (13.43-45).”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (B) Calchas discloses divine displeasure and proposes a solution: Agamemnon must give up a prized woman from his possession
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- Not matchedcites 2.299-332
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“After nine days of Greek suffering, the Iliad continues with an assembly initiated by Achilles, who proposes that they ask a prophet about the cause of Apollo's anger (1.53-67).”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (B) Calchas discloses divine displeasure and proposes a solution: Agamemnon must give up a prized woman from his possession
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- Not matchedcites 1.53-67
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“Other moments in the poem, by contrast, do in fact hint at the sincerity of Achilles' feelings for Briseis: after losing her in book 1, the hero withdraws from his companions in tears and sits on the shore of the sea (1.348-50), a pose that the scholia recognize as that of a distraught lover.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > References
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“In Iliad 9, the hero tells Odysseus that he loves Briseis from the depths of his heart (ἐγὼ τὴν | ἐκ θυμοῦ φίλεον, 9.342-43) and earlier in his speech he even equates her to Helen as his own ἄλοχον θυμαρέα (“darling wife,” 9.336).”
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“In response, the seer Calchas-after seeking reassurance and protection from Achilles-reveals that Apollo is angry with Agamemnon for his mistreatment of Chryses and will not relent until Chryseis is returned with a full hecatomb (1.68-100).”
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“Agamemnon reacts furiously, rebuking Calchas, but ultimately agrees to follow his instructions (1.101-17).”
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“Moreover, in the case of Chryseis and Briseis, the two are already close doublets of each other: besides their onomastic similarity (each formed as a patronymic adjective), both are war-prizes of prominent Greek warriors, captured in Achilles' sack of Thebe and Lyrnessus (1.366-69, 2.688-93), and both are described with a similar array of epithets, especially καλλιπάρῃον (“fair-cheeked,” Chryseis:”
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“On their arrival, they drag the boat onto the shore, set props beneath it and immediately disperse (1.484-87).”
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“Yet this only makes it all the more striking that Homer devotes so much attention to it here, with the Iliad's only proper account of seafaring (1.479-83)”
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“Of course, the ensuing sacrifice diverges significantly from that at Aulis: Chryseis is not sacrificed to the god (or supernaturally saved).”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (E) Sacrifice is performed at the altar
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“The day after the sacrifice, the Greeks receive a favorable wind from Apollo and set sail back to the Greek camp (1.477-83).”
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“It is notable that this is the longest description of sacrifice in the whole of the Iliad, with a detailed description of the ritual procedure (1.458-61)”
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“Indeed, Agamemnon's complaint against Calchas at 1.105-8 stresses this continuity (esp.αἰεί, “always,” 1.107); and Agamemnon goes on in the next line to emphasize the parallel between Calchas's past and present conduct: the seer is behaving in the same way “now too” (καὶ νῦν, 1.109).”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > III. THE ARCHITECTURE OF HOMERIC ALLUSION
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“By contrast, the poem makes no explicit statement that the plague has ended, despite it being the embassy's primary objective-an absence that seems to have troubled ancient commentators.”
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“Indeed, the enjambement in line 447 positions the “dear daughter” (παῖδα φίλην) and the “hecatomb” (ἱερὴν ἑκατόμβην) in close proximity to one another, reinforcing the speed (ὦκα) with which the sacrifice is begun.”
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“Moreover, this whole verse only appears once elsewhere in archaic epic, in the description of the sacrifice that precedes the Catalogue of Ships (1.459 = 2.422), an episode that itself resonates strongly with the gathering of the host at Aulis.”
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“But it is perhaps significant that we begin in verse 459 with a string of verbs that lack a direct object, which has to be supplied by the larger context.”
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“both the debate over Chryseis and her eventual return to her father replay and rework the sacrifice story.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > Abstract
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“Among archaic lyricists, it was treated by Stesichorus in his Oresteia (fr.178 Davies-Finglass) and perhaps also by Simonides.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > I. THE FABULA OF IPHIGENIA
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“This detail of the storm is attested elsewhere as early as Hesiod's Works and Days, where the Greeks are said to have gathered a large army together at Aulis, waiting for a χειμών to pass”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (A) Agamemnon offends a deity and is punished Agamemnon's transgression
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- Not matchedcites fr.204.124-29M-W
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“Once she has been collected, Iphigenia is delivered to her father in Aulis and placed on the altar, the consistent site of her sacrifice throughout tradition in both literature and art.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (C) Achilles loses a potential bride
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- Not checked yetcites [60] 60. Debiasi, A. 2013. "POxy XXX 2513: Ifigenia nei Korinthiaká di Eumelo." ZPE 184: 21-36.
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“This version is already found in the Cypria (deer substitution and conveyance to Tauris: arg.8 GEF), the Hesiodic Catalogue (replacement by an eidōlon and immortalization as”
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- Not matchedcites fr.23a.17-26M-W
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“This detail remained a permanent fixture of the Iphigenia story: it appears in many other literary sources, 39 and is also reflected in the prominent position which the seer plays in the iconographic tradition.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (B) Calchas discloses divine displeasure and proposes a solution: Agamemnon must give up a prized woman from his possession
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- Not matchedcites Aesch.Ag. 198-204
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- Not matchedcites Eur.IT 16-24
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“it is plausible that he would have reacted with an impulsive outburst of anger.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (B) Calchas discloses divine displeasure and proposes a solution: Agamemnon must give up a prized woman from his possession
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- Not matchedcites Hyg.Fab.98
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“Agamemnon's actions not only deprive Achilles of a potential bride, but also frustrate and anger him.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (C) Achilles loses a potential bride
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- Not matchedcites Eur.IA 899
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- Not matchedcites Eur.IA 961
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“From an early date, the sacrifice story contained a number of core and stable elements that would have been integral to any telling.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > Abstract
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“But this unique variant is most likely a pointed departure from earlier tradition, designed to downplay Agamemnon's individual imprudence and accentuate his role as a victim within the larger Oresteia narrative.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (B) Calchas discloses divine displeasure and proposes a solution: Agamemnon must give up a prized woman from his possession
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- Not matchedcites Aesch.Ag. 186
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“Proclus again does not specify who performs the sacrifice: the Greeks in general simply”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (C) Achilles loses a potential bride
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“It is thus likely that Artemis's punishment not only frustrated the progress of the Greeks' mission, but also inflicted physical hardship upon them.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (A) Agamemnon offends a deity and is punished Agamemnon's transgression
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- Not matchedcites Aesch.Ag. 188-98
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- Not matchedcites Dictys 1.19
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“the opening scenes of the Iliad evoke the Iphigenia story as a parallel and foil, a carefully curated sequence for audiences to recognize.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > Abstract
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“told them about the wrath of the goddess and instructed them to sacrifice Iphigenia to Artemis”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (B) Calchas discloses divine displeasure and proposes a solution: Agamemnon must give up a prized woman from his possession
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“In many tellings of the story, however, Iphigenia is not actually sacrificed: she is replaced (usually by a deer) and instead whisked away to become immortalized or appointed as a priestess in Tauris.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (C) Achilles loses a potential bride
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [62] 62. Draper, P. A. 2002. Iliad, Book 1: Homer. With Notes and Vocabulary. Ann Arbor: University Press of Michigan.
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“but in later tradition, it is almost always Agamemnon himself who performs the sacrifice, with Calchas assisting in the preliminary rituals.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (C) Achilles loses a potential bride
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [61] 61. Dowden, K. 1989. Death and the Maiden: Girls' Initiation Rites in Greek Mythology. London: Routledge. ____. 1996. "Homer's Sense of Text." JHS 116: 47-61. ____. 2008. "Diktys of Crete (49)." In Worthington, I. ed. Brill's New Jacoby. Consulted online. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1873-5363_bnj_a49. source
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“according to Proclus (Cypr.arg.4-5 GEF), Menelaus, Nestor and Palamedes went to recruit Odysseus in the Cypria, 56 while Apollodorus later reports that Agamemnon sent a herald to recruit each king (Epit.3.6).”
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- Not matchedcites Cypr.arg.4-5 GEF
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- Not matchedcites Epit.3.6
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“But his emphasis on Calchas's repeated behavior presupposes a broader history of bad blood between the pair (note especially the string of temporal adverbs: οὐ πώ ποτε,”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > Element Details (A) Agamemnon offends a deity and is punished
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“After all, similarsounding names of royal siblings are paralleled elsewhere in early Greek epic by three of Metaneira's daughters in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Callidice, Clisidice and Callithoe, 109-10); such duplications were evidently not offensive to an ancient ear.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > Element Details (A) Agamemnon offends a deity and is punished
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- Not matchedcites Homeric Hymn to Demeter 109-10
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“Undoubtedly, the Cypria's additional daughter”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > Element Details (A) Agamemnon offends a deity and is punished
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- Not checked yetcites [73] 73. ____. 2016. "On the Eve of Epic: Did the Chryses Episode in Iliad 1 Begin Its Life as a Separate Homeric Hymn?" In Kliger, I. and Maslov, B. eds. Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics. New York: Fordham University Press. 397-428.
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“We have already noted that the Iphigenia story is found in many other archaic texts, including the Cypria, the Hesiodic Catalogue and Stesichorus's Oresteia, which strongly implies that it was already firmly embedded in archaic mythological lore.”
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“Moreover, the independent existence of both Iphigenia and Iphianassa is in no way inconsistent with-and could even be presupposed by-Agamemnon's claim in book 9.”
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“In these verses, the speaker calls on Artemis for protection from death (presumably on a sailing voyage: κακὰς δ᾿ ἀπὸ κῆρας ἄλαλκε, 13) 67 and recalls how Agamemnon dedicated a temple to her”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (F) After the sacrifice, the Greeks receive a favorable wind from the offended deity and sail to Troy
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- Not matchedcites Theognidea 11-14
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [13] 13. Armstrong, D. and Ratchford, E. A. 1985. "Iphigenia's Veil: Aeschylus, Agamemnon 228-48." BICS 32: 1-12. source
- Not checked yetcites [12] 12. ____. 2021. "Repetition or Recurrence? A Traditional Use for ἄνδρεσσι μελήσει in Archaic Greek Poetry." In Beck, D. ed. Repetition, Communication, and Meaning in the Ancient World. Leiden: Brill. 8-43.
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“As we shall see, the Iliad mirrors the overarching Iphigenia sequence, but also reworks and distorts it at specific points-divergences that we shall consider further in section III.”
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“Finally, Homer's direct avoidance of the myth fits with the Iliad's more general suppression of immortalization and killing within the family.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > Element Details (A) Agamemnon offends a deity and is punished
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [82] 82. Foley, J. M. and Arft, J. 2015. "The Epic Cycle and Oral Tradition." In Fantuzzi and Tsagalis, eds. 78-95. source
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“As we shall see, all six elements are reflected in the same order in the opening phases of the poem.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > II. REPLAYING IPHIGENIA: THE RETURN OF CHRYSEIS
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“The Odyssey is already familiar with Clytemnestra's adultery, suggesting that the whole family drama was well established at an early date.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > Element Details (A) Agamemnon offends a deity and is punished
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- Not checked yetcites [80] 80. Foley, H. P. 1982. "Marriage and Sacrifice in Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis." Arethusa 15: 159- 80.
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“This detail is not explicitly attested in any extant archaic source, but it fits well with Artemis's larger association with seafaring and seems to be reflected in one of the opening hymns of the Theognidea (11-14).”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (F) After the sacrifice, the Greeks receive a favorable wind from the offended deity and sail to Troy
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“And indeed, Agamemnon immediately follows his rebuke of Calchas in Iliad 1 with an unflattering assessment of his wife (1.112-15), hinting at the marital discord that arose from his daughter's sacrifice.”
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“The same unease may also be reflected in Chryses' pointed failure to appeal to Agamemnon's familial piety in his opening supplication (a common ploy in other supplication scenes: Il. 15. 659-66, 22.338-43, 24.485-87, 503-4; Od. 11.66-68).”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > Element Details (A) Agamemnon offends a deity and is punished
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“Ultimately, however, whether she is killed or whisked away, the attempted sacrifice always has a grim outcome for Agamemnon and his family: the loss of Iphigenia.”
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“This whole episode closely parallels Agamemnon's offense against Artemis.”
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“Like many scholars, therefore, I believe that the Iphigenia story belonged to the wider mass of traditions and tales against which the Iliad situated itself.”
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“Not only does it play a key structural role-initiating the war with a sacrificed daughter, mirroring the sacrifice of Polyxena at its close 79 -but it also serves as a major motivation for Clytemnestra's later murder of her husband (cf.Pyth.11.22-23).”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > Element Details (A) Agamemnon offends a deity and is punished
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“In Iphigenia at Aulis, for example, Calchas specifies that Artemis has gladly received the sacrifice and”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (F) After the sacrifice, the Greeks receive a favorable wind from the offended deity and sail to Troy
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“Now that Iphigenia is dead (or whisked away to Tauris), it makes sense that Agamemnon only names his three surviving (or available) daughters as potential wives for Achilles (Il.9.144-48).”
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“After the sacrifice is complete, Proclus's summary of the Cypria continues by claiming that the Greeks”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (F) After the sacrifice, the Greeks receive a favorable wind from the offended deity and sail to Troy
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“Agamemnon impiously dismisses Apollo's divine authority, just as he had Artemis's at Aulis.”
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“Given the explicit Trojan war context, Aulis is the most likely setting for this dedication, 68 and the implication is that Artemis should protect the speaker's voyage just as she did Agamemnon's.”
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“With Iphigenia's sacrifice in the background, Agamemnon's paternal love is not an effective thing to appeal to.”
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“The sacrifice succeeded in appeasing Artemis, who quelled her angry storm winds.”
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“Indeed, Achilles' claim that Agamemnon does not know how to look to the past or the future (Il.1.343) could be taken as an implicit gesture to his failure to learn from past mistakes.”
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“After all the hardship and suffering that she has caused, the appeased god thus assists the Greeks in their voyage to the Trojan shore.Artemis transitions from obstructing the Greek cause to actively supporting it.”
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“The king, it seems, has not learned from his previous transgression.”
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“and he responds with similar venom.”
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“This section of Iliad 1 exhibits the least direct mapping onto the Aulis episode, as it begins to turn our attention to the larger consequences of Agamemnon's conduct, especially Achilles' withdrawal, an event which determines the trajectory of the whole poem.”
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“Iphigenia's key mythical role is determined by her status as Agamemnon's daughter.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (B) Calchas discloses divine displeasure and proposes a solution: Agamemnon must give up a prized woman from his possession
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“Moreover, Chryseis and Iphigenia are similar figures, each primarily defined and identified through her relationship to her father.”
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“These allusions to the two different Aulis episodes in consecutive books of the Iliad (the first implicit, the second explicit) could perhaps be taken to presuppose Homeric awareness of the Teuthranian expedition.”
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“the poem encourages us to see her as a potential future bride for Achilles, just as Iphigenia was at Aulis.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > References
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“Indeed, Apollo and Artemis appear to have been particularly suitable for this kind of revenge pattern.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [89] 89. Friedrich, R. 2002. "'Flaubertian Homer': The Phrase Juste in Homeric Diction." Arion 10: 1-13.
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“Achilles' loss of Briseis is thus analogous to his unfulfilled “marriage” to Iphigenia.”
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“though Achilles' later instruction that Agamemnon”
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“The repeated emphasis on Odysseus's central role at this moment (1.311, 430, 440) invites an audience to recall the last time he played a similar role.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (D) Odysseus collects and brings this woman to her father by the altar
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“Indeed, this resonant phrase is well chosen for Achilles' immediate addressee, Odysseus: Achilles implies that Briseis is his equivalent of Penelope.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > References
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“In both cases, the divinely induced impasse is explained by the seer Calchas, and the solution which he proposes involves Agamemnon giving up a prized woman from his possession-his war-slave Chryseis and his daughter Iphigenia.”
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“and in context it too has its own rhetorical purpose: heightening the pain and emotion that Achilles feels at the loss of Patroclus.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > References
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“And he enacts an analogous punishment: the plague (νοῦσον ... κακήν, 1.10; λοιμός, 1.61; λοιγόν, 1.67, 97, 456) is a similarly violent upheaval of the natural world to Artemis's storm winds, causing anguish (ἄλγεα, 1.96, 110) and delay to the Greeks' project.”
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“Indeed, as Achilles goes on to say, the Greeks are”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (A) Agamemnon offends a deity and is punished
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- Not matchedcites Il.1.59-61
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“This line is most naturally understood to refer to a prayer or sacrifice which the Greeks have either omitted or wrongly performed.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (B) Calchas discloses divine displeasure and proposes a solution: Agamemnon must give up a prized woman from his possession
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- Not matchedcites Pulleyn 2000: 143
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- Not matchedcites Draper 2002: 44
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“Achilles' reaction to Agamemnon's conduct also parallels that at Aulis.”
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“In both cases, Agamemnon and the army take away what they had previously offered (cf. μ' ἀφέλεσθέ γε δόντες, 1.299).”
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“There too, as we have seen, Odysseus appears to have been traditionally responsible for bringing Iphigenia to her father, just as he brings Chryseis to Chryses here.”
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“In addition, the Iliad assembly scene may even nod to Agamemnon's original offense at Aulis when Achilles suggests possible reasons for Apollo's anger: he wonders whether Apollo”
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“But in this instance, the similarities extend beyond the typological norm, especially since the same mortal is at fault in each case.”
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“Moreover, there is an underlying symmetry between this punishment and Agamemnon's previous crime: Apollo's punitive archery (1.48-52) echoes and inverts Agamemnon's foolhardy deer hunting.”
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“Yet even so, here too the Iphigenia episode resonates meaningfully in the background, now centered on the figure of Briseis”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (C) Achilles loses a potential bride
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“But εὐχωλή, like its associated verb εὔχομαι, is a polyvalent noun which can refer to a “boast” as much as a “prayer.””
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (B) Calchas discloses divine displeasure and proposes a solution: Agamemnon must give up a prized woman from his possession
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- Not matchedcites Muellner 1976
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“Indeed, Agamemnon may even subtly acknowledge this prior clash: he claims that “strife is always dear” to Achilles, alongside wars and battles (αἰεὶ γάρ τοι ἔρις τε φίλη πόλεμοί τε μάχαι τε, 1.177), a remark that-like his similarly phrased complaint about Calchas (1.107)-could nod to this specific past conflict.”
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“The repetition of the hero's epithet πολύμητις (1.311, 440) may also foreground his capacity for cunning, inviting us to recall the Aulian marriage trick.”
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“This parallel is particularly striking; on no other occasion in myth is Agamemnon required to give anything up to appease a god, let alone a prized woman.”
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“But even this wish resonates pointedly with the Aulis episode (envisioning Briseis as a victim of Artemis just like Iphigenia)”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > References
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“Homer's initial emphasis on Apollo's descent from Leto (1.9, 1.36) even foregrounds this familial connection at the outset.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (A) Agamemnon offends a deity and is punished
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- Not matchedcites 1.9
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“these parallels thus establish the Iphigenia fabula as an underlying paradigm and foil for the Iliad's opening, inaugurating-as we shall now see-a whole series of narrative interconnections.”
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“Ultimately, Calchas goes on to dismiss Achilles' suggestion (1.93), but the raised possibility invites a further connection with the earlier episode.”
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“Here too, events map closely onto those at Aulis.”
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“Moreover, the two offended deities form a natural brother-sister pair, reinforcing the correspondence between the two incidents-in both cases, Agamemnon offends a child of Leto.”
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“Achilles loses a potential bride through Agamemnon's actions, just like at Aulis.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > References
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“Like at Aulis, Agamemnon has “completely deceived and wronged” him (ἐκ γὰρ δή μ' ἀπάτησε καὶ ἤλιτεν, 9.375; cf.9.371, 375-76)”
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“If Achilles had indeed been caught up in the crossfire of Agamemnon's scheming at Aulis, that prior history of fraught relations adds extra depth to their latest quarrel.”
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“The consequences of Agamemnon's conduct are also parallel.Apollo grows angry, just like his sister (χολωθείς 1.9; χωόμενος 1.44; χωομένοιο 1.46; ἐχώσατο 1.64; μῆνιν 1.75; cf.μηνίσασα, Cypr.arg.8 GEF).”
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- Not matchedcites 1.9
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“Its presence here alongside ἑκατόμβη inevitably foregrounds the meaning of “prayer,” but Achilles' words may still hint at the possibility that Agamemnon's crime results, as before, from an arrogant boast.”
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“Finally, we may also suspect that Agamemnon's outburst of fury against Calchas's revelation resembles his response at Aulis.”
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“Taken out of context, these verses could just as well refer to events at Aulis as those at Chryse.”
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“As Jonathan Burgess has demonstrated, “many transferred motifs concerning Achilles' death ... occur in extended narrative patterns,” reworking traditional sequences of narrative in order, a practice which he has plausibly grounded in archaic modes of performance.”
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- Not matchedcites Burgess
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“Similarly, at a more thematic level, Agamemnon's “theft” of Briseis also parallels Paris's initial abduction of Helen, another major catalyst of strife.”
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“Ancient rhapsodes and performers appear to have picked up a story in sequence, a custom already reflected in the series of Demodocus's songs in Odyssey 8.”
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“Agamemnon's critique of Calchas signposts the larger motif transference at work in book 1.”
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“These lines are formulaic building blocks of the sacrifice type scene, familiar from many other iterations.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (E) Sacrifice is performed at the altar
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“The proem's “plan of Zeus” seems to evoke and rework the foundational moment of the whole story: Zeus's “plan” to relieve the overburdened earth by destroying the race of heroes (familiar from the Cypria and Hesiodic Catalogue).”
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- Not matchedcites Cypria
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“Overall, therefore, this Iphigenia pattern offers further insight into Homeric allusive practice.”
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“Here too, the sacrifice performs the same function; indeed, the whole ritual is designed to “appease” the god (cf.ἱλάσκοντο, 1.472).”
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“They are thus an apt pair to adapt and recalibrate different aspects of Iphigenia.”
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“In Iliad 1, then, Homer similarly exploits the story's introductory aspect, aligning the structure of his poem to that of the larger war.”
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“He has clearly not learned from his past mistakes.”
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“But given the sheer accumulation of parallels and the shared overarching sequence, the overall connection is difficult to deny.”
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“Such an initiatory resonance also seems to be presupposed by Hesiod's mention of Aulis as the starting point of both his own voyage and that of the Achaeans in the Works and Days (650-53: see § I (A) above)”
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“The parallel motifs are not only grounded in continuity, however.There is also significant divergence, especially between the fathers Agamemnon and Chryses.”
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“Of course, the favorable wind here is far more incidental to the immediate plot than it was at Aulis, where fair weather was the main goal of the ritual.”
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“but here we can note how the tragic frisson of the Iphigenia episode is evoked but negated.”
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“The immediate transition from Chryseis's return to the sacrifice mirrors the same sequence at Aulis, where Iphigenia's arrival immediately precipitates her sacrifice.”
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“The debate over Chryseis and her eventual return to her father replay and rework Iphigenia's sacrifice through a sustained sequence of narrative connections.”
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“Lucretius begins De rerum natura with a description of the sacrifice (1.82-101)”
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“Chryses' prominent role in the sacrifice matches that of the paternal Agamemnon and priestly Calchas at Aulis”
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“Agamemnon, in particular, repeats the same hubristic actions as before, angering both a god and Achilles.”
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“Indeed, later descriptions of events at Aulis emphasize the misery of this moment: in Iphigenia at Aulis, for example, Agamemnon cries at his daughter's arrival (650, 683-84) and later groans aloud when he sees her led to the altar (ἀνεστέναξε, 1549), a foil to Chryses' joy here.”
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“In the previous section, we have established an underlying symmetry between the events of Iliad 1 and the traditional Aulis story (summarized in Table 2).”
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“Apollo's control of the winds in Iliad 1 thus departs significantly from his usual practice and aligns him even more closely with the appeased Artemis of Aulis.”
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“while Statius's Achilleid, which promises to lead Achilles through the “whole Trojan story” (tota ... Troia, 1.7), begins with the gathering of the Greeks at Aulis and may well have continued in book 2 with Iphigenia's sacrifice, as Alessandro Barchiesi has argued.”
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- Not matchedcites Barchiesi 2020
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“We should note that the Iphigenia myth has a particularly inceptive aspect: the sacrifice is a key moment of beginning, initiating the expedition against Troy.”
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“There is a strong sense of déjà vu as events at Aulis are replayed on the Trojan shore.”
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“More generally, Agamemnon's fraught relationships with both Calchas and Achilles also reverberate pointedly with their prior history.”
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“Such doubling is also apparent in the reworking of Iphigenia: she shares features in common with both Chryseis (a possession of Agamemnon) and Briseis (a potential bride of Achilles).”
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“Elsewhere in the Iliad, both Diomedes and Ajax play the role of the absent Achilles, while both Patroclus and Achilles allusively reflect later events of Achilles' own life and death.”
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- Not matchedcites Louden 2006: 14-52
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“Of course, there are multiple important “beginnings” in the Trojan war story (including the Judgement of Paris and Paris's theft of Helen), but events at Aulis were crucial for the commencement of the war itself and later tradition certainly considered the sacrifice an important moment of beginning.”
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“In addition, it inaugurates a whole series of retrospective replays of tradition in the following books, initiating an ongoing allusive pattern.”
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“By looking back to the sacrifice story, the start of the Iliad replays the start of the whole Trojan war.”
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“The outcome of the sacrifice is thus the same as at Aulis: the offended deity is appeased and allows for smooth sailing.”
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“But there may be more at stake here: the Iliad begins by implicitly distancing itself from this prior tradition of (attempted) filicide and barbaric human sacrifice.”
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“At one level, the allusive background of Iphigenia's sacrifice adds further depth to the opening scenes of the Iliad, reinforcing the characterization of key protagonists by echoing and recalling their past behavior.”
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“The larger structure of the whole expedition is mapped onto the narrow contours of our epic.”
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“and the vagueness of πατρί and τήν could evoke Agamemnon and Iphigenia as much as Chryses and Chryseis.”
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“Iphigenia's tragic fate is defused and reframed in a more positive light.”
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“The episode concludes at a moment of transition and new beginning.”
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“As with the preceding reunion of father and daughter, there is once more a significant difference here: the (at least attempted) human sacrifice at Aulis is again defused, and we are instead presented with an archetype of orderly, civilized sacrifice”
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“These opening scenes are not an isolated occurrence, but rather a repeated-and repeatable-scenario.”
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“Moreover, when we recall his own past losses as a parent, his maltreatment of Chryses appears even more heartless.”
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“Here too, the Iliad looks back to this inaugural moment and incorporates it into its own beginning, redirecting the god's “plan” to focus specifically on Achilles' wrath.”
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“As the sequence progresses in the Iliad, we have noted an increasing contrast between the pair, as Chryses' joyful reunion with his daughter serves as a foil to Agamemnon's past loss”
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“The comparison of Agamemnon and Chryses also highlights a further aspect of this parallel sequence: the prominence within it of allusive doublets, whereby one traditional character's role is split between two different figures.”
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“This imprecision is not unique, but for audiences who have recognized the underlying Iphigenia pattern, the extra semantic space could invite them to recall Iphigenia's own similar treatment at Agamemnon's hands: the verb ἔσφαξαν (1.459), in particular, resonates with the language regularly used of Iphigenia's sacrifice from Hesiod onwards.”
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“As we noted above, this fits with the Iliad's general downplaying of human sacrifice and immortalization, reducing the supernatural elements of Iphigenia's story to a lingering shadow.”
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“The elaborately described ritual at Chryse (1.458-74) becomes a programmatic archetype of proper, orderly sacrifice, a demonstration of how sacrifice should be done and indeed will be done in the remainder of the poem.”
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“Through its divergence from the Iphigenia story, the Iliad begins by underlining that it is not a tale of such perverted violence, but one which rather models proper ritual conduct for Homer's own audiences.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > III. THE ARCHITECTURE OF HOMERIC ALLUSION
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“Perhaps this language was particularly associated with the Aulis episode in tradition.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (E) Sacrifice is performed at the altar
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“Against the shadow of tradition, Agamemnon emerges as a callous ruler.”
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“Such a lack of one-to-one mapping between the mythical fabula and the Iliad could perhaps be thought to undermine my overall argument for this allusive scheme, but such splitting of a single character's fabula can be readily paralleled in other cases of Homeric allusion.”
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“The Agamemnon of the Iphigenia fabula is replayed in the Iliad by both Agamemnon himself (abusing Calchas, losing a female possession) and Chryses (facing the loss of a daughter, performing the sacrifice).”
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“Here too, these events follow the general pattern of the Aulis fabula.”
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“The Iphigenia pattern of book 1 parallels this phenomenon, complementing the closing Iliadic prolepsis of Achilles' death with an opening analepsis of Iphigenia's sacrifice.”
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“Whether or not this was the case, however, it is clear that the sacrifice not only has the same goal as Agamemnon's (removing the divinely induced λοιγός), but also leaves space for us to recall the original slaughter of Iphigenia.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (E) Sacrifice is performed at the altar
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“This final element of the Chryseis story closes the replay of Iphigenia's fabula at a structurally significant moment, echoing the Greeks' first arrival in Troy.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (F) After the sacrifice, the Greeks receive a favorable wind from the offended deity and sail to Troy
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“The altar is precisely where Iphigenia is delivered to Agamemnon (e.g., βωμῶ[ι], Hes.fr.23a.18 M-W)”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > (D) Odysseus collects and brings this woman to her father by the altar
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“while his prayer to Apollo explicitly asks the god to “ward off loathsome destruction from the Danaans” (Δαναοῖσιν ἀεικέα λοιγὸν ἄμυνον, 1.456), a very similar request to that which would have been made to Artemis at Aulis.”
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“But more than that, it also exhibits an alert self-awareness about its own place in that tradition.”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > References
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“With these various inceptive allusions, Iliad 1 is thus thoroughly integrated into the broader analeptic replays of the poem's first half, evoking and embracing the wider tradition.”
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“The start of the poem thus echoes and reworks multiple key “beginnings” of the larger story: Zeus's plan, the theft of Helen, and the sacrifice of Iphigenia.”
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“In a way, the Iliad is restarting the song of the Trojan War, and to do so most effectively, it both acknowledges and appropriates multiple other beginnings.”
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“The start of the Iliad equally faces up to this challenge, but comes to a rather different solution: it legitimizes its opening by incorporating and reworking the war's earlier major starting points.”
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“It was always a challenge to commence an epic poem because there were so many different starting points available-a challenge that is explicitly recognized in the Odyssey's instruction for its Muse to begin “from any point” (ἁμόθεν, Od. 1.10).”
§ Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion * > References
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- Not matchedcites Odyssey
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The paper relies on this without support.
The available post-Homeric sources reliably reflect pre-Homeric Iphigenia tradition rather than only post-Homeric developments or the influence of the Homeric poems.
“With appropriate caution, we can thus employ post-Homeric evidence as our best available guide for potential pre-Homeric traditions.”
“we can only make use of post-Homeric evidence and thus face the risk that our sources betray the influence of the Homeric texts themselves, or otherwise reflect post-Homeric developments in the myth.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The audience of the Iliad would have been familiar with the Iphigenia fabula and able to recall it during the poem's opening.
“His very presence here at the outset of the poem would encourage an audience to recall his major previous contribution.”
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The Iphigenia at Aulis story, including Odysseus bringing Iphigenia to her father at the altar, was part of the traditional story world known to the Iliad's audiences.
“There too, as we have seen, Odysseus appears to have been traditionally responsible for bringing Iphigenia to her father, just as he brings Chryseis to Chryses here.”
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