Iliad 24.649 and the semantics of KEPTOMEΩ

The Classical Quarterly

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 618-621

  Clay, Jenny Strauss ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1093/cq/49.2.618     Document Type: Article

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1. The etymology is uncertain. See Chantraine and Frisk s.v.; and J.-L. Perpillou, Recherches lexicales en grec ancien (Louvain, 1996), 118-21.
2. E.g. Iliad 20.202 = 433; Odyssey 7.17, 16.87, 18.350, 20.263, 22.194, and 24.240. Yet even in these cases, the reaction anticipated is often something more precise than fear or anger: to provoke a fight, whether verbal or physical, or to goad someone into a self-revealing emotional reaction.
3. N. J. Richardson, The Iliad: A Commentary 6 (Cambridge, 1993), on 24.649.
4. ‘A residual problem in Iliad 24’, CQ 36 (1986), 32-7, at 35. In turn Hooker is responding to C. W. McLeod, Homer Iliad Book 24 (Cambridge, 1982), 142.
5. Cf. J. L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words (Cambridge, MA, 1975), 101-32; also S. Davis, ‘Perlocutions’, Linguistics and Philosophy 3 (1979), 225-43; and J. R. Searle and D. Vanderveken, Foundations of Illocutionary Logic (Cambridge, 1985), 10-12.
6. Note that even Hermes does not say the obvious: that Priam will be killed if found in the Greek camp.
7. On the gamesmanship of the entire scene, see J. S. Clay, The Wrath of Athena (Princeton, 1983), 194-204.
8. Cf. Hooker (n. 5), 33; and G. S. Kirk, The Iliad: A Commentary, vol. 1 (Cambridge, 1985), 332.