id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
grbs-10831	Segal, Charles	The Embassy and the Duals of Iliad 9.182-98	1968	14	.pdf	application/pdf	6082	264	69	By recalling at the outset of the embassy (182ff) that initial insult, Homer predisposes the entire embassy-scene (which is, after all, our first view of Achilles in action since Book 1) in Achilles' favor and makes his hero's refusal of Agamemnon's offer more plausible. The duals of 197-98, I suggest, are Homer's way of handling this tension at the decisive point where Achilles has actually to address the envoys.	cache/grbs-10831.pdf	txt/grbs-10831.txt