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SmoothSmartGuy

What is one Homeric smilie in ‘The Iliad’?

What is the point Homer is trying to make in usinging such a similie at that moment?

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A few days ago
Anonymous

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(Diomedes’ shield and helmet flare like a star)

Then Pallas Minerva put valour into the heart of Diomed, son of Tydeus, that he might excel all the other Argives, and cover himself with glory. She made a stream of fire flare from his shield and helmet like the star that shines most brilliantly in summer after its bath in the waters of Oceanus- even such a fire did she kindle upon his head and shoulders as she bade him speed into the thickest hurly-burly of the fight. (5: 1/1)

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