Karol Zieliński

The Dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon (Iliad 1.57-257) as an Example of Oral Discourse and Egalitarian Mentality

This paper aims to demonstrate how the characters of the Iliad use rhetorical strategies and how their hidden intentions would have been recognizable to an oral audience, using the dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon as a case study. Martin (1989) shows that the discourse of Homeric characters is performative and, i...