Love the post title. I am reading through the Iliad for the first time with a different substack (https://open.substack.com/pub/matthewmlong/p/ajax-duels-with-hector). We just read what I think is the first apostrophe, to Menelaos, in Book 7. I think it neatly fits into the definitions given here. The narrator basically says, “good thing Agamemnon talked you out of dueling Hector or you’d have lost!”
Love the post title. I am reading through the Iliad for the first time with a different substack (https://open.substack.com/pub/matthewmlong/p/ajax-duels-with-hector). We just read what I think is the first apostrophe, to Menelaos, in Book 7. I think it neatly fits into the definitions given here. The narrator basically says, “good thing Agamemnon talked you out of dueling Hector or you’d have lost!”
thanks! I haven't seen that other substack, But I will check it out!