Interested to read your thoughts. The question of when the story of Achilles' wrath reached this overall form, more or less the question of its unity, is of course fairly basic to assessing questions of parallel narratives. I happen to think there's good evidence to suggest the narratives of both Homeric poems ought to have come into focus already in the BA (or its immediate aftermath), which tends to make me a bit more skeptical of some recent neoanalytical approaches.
My own skepticism is about what it means for the narratives to come into focus. Are we talking about the basic parameters of the stories, the overall 'facts', an archipelago of episodes, or more or less the plot and length we have now. I struggle to find any evidence to commit to more than the basic facts of the story and a constellation of episodes....
Interested to read your thoughts. The question of when the story of Achilles' wrath reached this overall form, more or less the question of its unity, is of course fairly basic to assessing questions of parallel narratives. I happen to think there's good evidence to suggest the narratives of both Homeric poems ought to have come into focus already in the BA (or its immediate aftermath), which tends to make me a bit more skeptical of some recent neoanalytical approaches.
-Michael Clark
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My own skepticism is about what it means for the narratives to come into focus. Are we talking about the basic parameters of the stories, the overall 'facts', an archipelago of episodes, or more or less the plot and length we have now. I struggle to find any evidence to commit to more than the basic facts of the story and a constellation of episodes....