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"In the Odyssey one might compare H. to the setting sun whose majesty remains w/o intensity; for he no longer maintains a pitch equal to the Iliad the consistent heights nowhere lapsing the same flood of steady passions the stately versatility packed w/ images from reality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nchlsswft/status/1974824505769070980) [@nchlsswft](/creator/x/nchlsswft) 2025-10-05T13:10Z 1351 followers, 3019 engagements


"Interesting end-title from the 3rd c. AD   "the end of Iliad 2" (in fact at XXXXX just before the Catalogue) with additional bibliographical details: (in a collection of books 1-6) (491 lines in this roll) and (36 lines in this column)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nchlsswft/status/1975173634894565869) [@nchlsswft](/creator/x/nchlsswft) 2025-10-06T12:17Z 1350 followers, 1768 engagements


"Horace commends the Odyssey's opening: "he intends to give not smoke from the flame but light from smoke so that he might then relate marvelous wonders." Interesting his paraphrase omits & and he uses mores for seeing that Zenodotus read custom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nchlsswft/status/1976608603042943225) [@nchlsswft](/creator/x/nchlsswft) 2025-10-10T11:19Z 1350 followers, 4219 engagements


"The only lamp in Homer appears at Odyssey XXXXX as they hide the suitors' weapons: "Holding out a golden lamp Pallas Athena cast a gorgeous light.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/nchlsswft/status/1979908881821159808) [@nchlsswft](/creator/x/nchlsswft) 2025-10-19T13:53Z 1352 followers, 2915 engagements


"Stumbled upon Scottish novelist G. Whyte-Melville's Iliad online doodled (esp horses) & inscribed when he was 12: "George John Whyte Melville (is a fool) March the 27th Eastlands near Dulwich 1833." He later served in the cavalry in Crimea wrote abt horsemanship & died riding"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nchlsswft/status/1977710431725592909) [@nchlsswft](/creator/x/nchlsswft) 2025-10-13T12:18Z 1351 followers, 7094 engagements


"It's pointed out in the scholia a few times e.g. "throughout the Odyssey he presents events omitted from the Iliad as if they were one work.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/nchlsswft/status/1979153315289030842) [@nchlsswft](/creator/x/nchlsswft) 2025-10-17T11:51Z 1349 followers, 6398 engagements


"Defending Hector in Iliad XX Apollo says "you are merciless you gods and malicious" the only instance of in the poem and Calypso echoes this verse when she defends herself with "envious" used in Greek literature only here and in allusions to this passage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nchlsswft/status/1978056095307378800) [@nchlsswft](/creator/x/nchlsswft) 2025-10-14T11:11Z 1352 followers, 6252 engagements


"A curious tradition is preserved in a scholion to Odyssey XXXX whereby Aeolus the custodian of the winds was married to Telepatra and was therefore the son-in-law of Laestrygon Poseidon's son and the eponymous progenitor of the Laestrygonians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nchlsswft/status/1980620955836903698) [@nchlsswft](/creator/x/nchlsswft) 2025-10-21T13:03Z 1352 followers, 1079 engagements