![]() ![]() On the term Master Narrator, see the Inventory of terms and names on the idea of the Muse(s) as the goddess(es) of poetic inspiration, see the general comment at I.02.484–487 and the special comments at I.02.484 and at I.02.761. The Master Narrator begins his narration by focusing on this anger: he invokes a Muse, as a goddess of inspiration whom he addresses here simply as theā ‘goddess’, and he calls on her to sing for him this anger, I.01.001. A definitive book on this word is Muellner 1996. The word is mēnis ‘anger’, I.01.001, and it refers to the anger of Achilles. The signaling is accomplished by way of the first word of the very first verse of the Homeric Iliad. By theme I mean a basic unit of content or meaning in Homeric poetry: see the Inventory of terms and names. The main theme of the narration is signaled right away. ![]() ![]() That said, I now proceed to offer a sampling of comments on Rhapsody 1. My comments on the Iliad as I presented them in Classical Inquiries 2016–2017 are merely samplings of the content that I hope to contribute to the overall commentary, to which a number of other colleagues are also contributing their own comments. Following up on her meticulous work, I am in the process of converting her summaries into a form of commentary that is being incorporated into AHCIP. My colleague Anita Nikkanen, an Associate Editor for the online project A Homer commentary in progress ( for an introduction to the project, see ), tracked the sequences of Homeric verses as listed in the indices for six of these books and then summarized my comments on those verses. Each one of these books has its own index locorum. ![]() The comments I offered in Classical Inquiries 2016–2017 on Iliad Rhapsody 1 through Rhapsody 24, starting here with Rhapsody 1, were based mostly on details that derive from seven books that I indicate in the Bibliography by way of these abbreviations: BA, GMP, H24H, HC, HPC, HQ, HR, MoM, PasP, PH. ![]()
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