The Iliad and The Apocalypse

From: clayton stirling bartholomew (c.s.bartholomew@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon Apr 13 1998 - 06:00:24 EDT


I was reading Richmond Lattimore's introduction to Agamemnon yesterday and
came across a reference to the Iliad which caught my eye.

Homer, in describing KALXAS (Iliad 1:70) says:
 
hOS HiDH TA T' EONTA TA T' ESSOMENA PRO T' EONTA

Something about the structure of this line reminded me of the formula from the
Apocalypse 1:8:

hO WN KAI hO HN KAI hO ERXOMENOS

I have one question about these two passages. How is the temporal information
in each of these made manifest by the syntax? I will reword the question a
little. What syntactical indicators are present here that the authors used to
encoded the temporal information?

This is not a trick question. I really would like to know the answer to this.

-- 
Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
Three Tree Point
P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062


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