Archilochus’ Cologne Epode and Homer’s Quivering Spear (fr. 196A.52 IEG2)
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Nelson, Thomas https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6654-8939
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In this note, I highlight a hitherto unrecognized literary resonance in the climactic final verses of Archilochus' First Cologne Epode: Archilochus parodically and subversively reworks the Homeric description of a quivering spear. This Homeric resonance caps the poem's ongoing clash between the generic conventions of epic and iambus, while also adding a further hint towards how we might read the poem's enigmatic close.
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Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik
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0084-5388
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219
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Habelt
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