Index to this series | Text of Chapman’s Homer’s Iliad
Both first and last place may be prominent in a narrative.
So may be the middle – perhaps I meant that to be implicit when first posting this review on September 1, 2018. Then I wrote an impressionistic account, as I did again in “Monism (Iliad Book XII)” in February, 2023. Or it is a moralistic account, looking mainly at the lesson taught by Sarpedon – also the severely monotheistic lesson of Hector, in the 2023 account. Below I add a systematic review of the action. Note added August 28, 2024.
Occurring three-quarters of the way into Book XII of the Iliad, but presented last below, Sarpedon’s great speech on leadership ought to be known by everybody with authority and power.
Polytropy 