... me to fight it out and do battle,/ make the rest of the Trojans sit down, and all the Achaians,/ and set me in the middle with Menelaos the warlike/ to fight together for the sake of Helen and all her possessions./ That one of us who wins and is proved stronger, let him/ take the possessions fairly and the woman, and lead her homeward." Another example of an ... has become a standard part of an oral traditional text. The catalogue of ships and troops, teichoskopia, (view form the wall) aristeia, (domination of the battlefield by a single warrior) embassy to Achilles, and theomachy (a ba...

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