Appendix VI. Summary of Simile Characteristics

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1 Appendix VI Summary of Simile Characteristics Table VI-1 and VI-2 below compare the simile characteristics described in other appendices. This includes the following: Each simile is identified in the first three columns by its book number (Book ), index number in the book ( ), and line number in the book ( ). The Scene column identifies whether the simile is a Scene (Yes) or a short phrase or clause (No). The Vehicle column shows the vehicle(s) associated with the similes. Appendix I shows various broad categories of these vehicles. The Tenor column shows the tenor(s) assocated with similes as described in Appendix II. For those similes for which multiple tenors correspond to multiple vehicles, the order of the tenors in this column is picked to match the order of the matching vehicles in the Vehicle column. The / / column shows identifies similes that fall into some of the simile types described in Appendix V, including: o refers to negative similes in which the tenor is described as being not like the vehicle. o and refer to similes with two or three vehicles. The column shows the prothesis of the simile. Appendix III provides a further compilation of the protheses. The column identifies the speaker of the simile. A further compilation of the speakers of the similes by book number in each poem is provided in Tables V- 1 and V-2 of Appendix V-D. Clusters of closely-spaced similes are highlighted in light green or light blue and shown in thicker boxed cells. Clusters shaded in light green have similes that are thematically connected. Clusters in light blue have similes that are unrelated. Large gaps of greater than 200 lines between successive similes are shown by dashed purple lines. Appendix VII discusses simile clusters and the large gaps further.

2 No Night Apollo ἔοικα No fire Agamemnon s eyes ἔοικα No honey Nestor s voice Comp No mist Thetis ἠύτε Yes bees Argives ἠύτε Yes waves Achaean Assembly φὴ Yes grain field stirred by wind Assembly No not coward Achaean leader Odysseus Yes No Yes thunder of wave children widows serpent devoured 9 sparrows Clamor of Army Argives Odysseus we will taketroy after 9 years Calchas No little boys Argives ἔοικα Nestor Yes crashing wave Argives Yes glare of fire gleam of bronze ἠύτε Yes birds Achaeans No leaves and flowers numberless Achaeans ὅσσος Yes flies Achaeans ἠύτε Yes goatherds Achaean Leaders Yes bull Agamemnon ἠύτε No olive oil Titaressus river ἠύτε No birds Eumelas horses No fire marching Achaean army ὡς εἰ Yes Zeus lash army feet No leaves or sand Achaean army ἔοικα Iris

3 No girl Nastes ἠύτε No birds shrieking Trojans Yes cranes Trojans ἠύτε Yes fog dense dust ἠύτε No No night (for a thief) a stone''s throw fog Comp. visibility in dust ὅσσος Yes lion Menelaus Yes man seeing snake Paris seeing Menelaus Yes axe s heart Paris Yes cicadas Trojan leaders ἔοικα No lead ram Odysseus Priam Yes ram > ewes Odysseus > his men ἐίσκω Priam No an ignorant man Odysseus ἔοικα Priam No snow-flakes Odysseus words ἔοικα Antenor No wild animal Menelaus ἔοικα No death Paris ἴσος Yes star Athena οἷος Yes mother > a fly Athena > arrow Yes ivory Menelaus' thighs Yes fawns Argives ἠύτε Agamemnon No wild boar Idomeneus εἴκελος Yes dark cloud Achaean phalanxes No pitch dark cloud ἠύτε Yes a wave Danaans Yes bleating of ewes clamor of Trojans

4 Yes thunder of rivers shouting of armies No falling tower Echepolus No wolves Yes a felled poplar Yes star Yes Yes flooding river wounded lion Trojans and Achaeans Simoeisios flamefrom Diomedes helmet ἐναλίγκιος Diomedes ἔοικα furious Diomedes Yes lion Diomedes No lion Aeneas No dogs Trojans Sarpedon No snared in flax Sarpedon Yes chaff Achaeana Yes clouds Danaans ἔοικα Yes slain lions 2 Achaeans οἷος No fir trees Diocles' sons ἔοικα Yes man in river Diomedes Yes haze visibility No doves No lions boars horses jumping ὅσσος Athena Hera ὅμοιος Argives ἔοικα Yes 10,000 men Ares bellow ὅσσος Yes black mist Ares οἷος Yes curdled milk Ares' blood Yes leaves men's lineage οἷος Glaucus No star Hecuba s robe No raging woman Andromache ἔοικα Housekeeper

5 No star Astyanax ἀλίγκιος No coward Yes horse Paris No shining sun Paris in armor Yes fair wind Paris Yes West wind Armies οἷος No tower Ajax' shield ἠύτε Yes No Yes not a boy or woman lions boars Hades > Tartarus; heaven > earth Ajax Zeus > other gods ἠύτε ἔοικα ὅσσος No coward Odysseus Diomedes No lambs Trojans ἠύτε No child Teucer Yes raindrenched poppy Zeus Gorgythion's head Yes dog Yes stars Trojan fires Yes sea in a storm Yes fountain Yes No Yes No (mother) bird sand dust father > son halcyon bird hearts of Achaeans weeping Agamemnon Achilles Achilles gifts of Agamemnon ὅσσος Achilles Peleus > Phoenix ὡς εἰ Phoenix Alcyone s mother ἔχων Phoenix No alien Achilles ὡς εἰ Achilles Yes Zeus Agamemnon

6 No Yes Zeus lightning sheep dogs > wild beast flashing bronze Achaeans > Trojans No lions Diomedes Odysseus Yes Yes range of mule plowing hunting dogs > deer Distance from Dolon ὅσσος Diomedes/ Odysseus > Dolon No snow horses Comp. Dolon No wind horses ὅμοιος Dolon Yes flock Diomedes > Trojans No sunbeams horses ἔοικα Nestor Yes rainbows shield serpents ἔοικα Yes star οἷος No Zeus lightning s armor Yes reapers Armies No wolves Armies Yes lunchtime Trojans broken ἦμος Yes fawns Agamemnon > 2 Trojans No lion Agamemnon No round stone Hippolochus head Yes Yes thickets > fire cows Trojans > Agamemnon Agamemnon > Trojans No lead spear point No lion Agamemnon Yes Yes mother in labor hunters > dogs > lions, boars Agamemnon's pain >Trojans > Achaeans

7 Yes storm ἴσος Yes Zephyrus > clouds > Achaeans ὡς ὁπότε Yes wild boars Diomedes Odysseus No No Yes Yes goats woman boy dogs,youths > boar jackals > stag Diomedes > Trojans Paris Paris ὡς εἰ Diomedes Trojans > Odysseus Trojans > Odysseus ὡς εἰ No tower Ajax' shield ἠύτε Yes river > trees, mud Ajax > horses, men ὡς ὁπότε No wild beast Ajax ἔοικα Yes Yes peasants boys > ass Ajax > Trojans Trojans > Ajax No blazing fire fight of Achaeans δέμας No whirlwind Nestor ἴσος Nestor No storm ἴσος Yes boar/ dogs/hunter > Greeks Yes oaks Polypoetes Leonteus Yes wild boars Polypoetes Leonteus ἔοικα Yes snow-flakes stones thrown Yes wasps, bees Achaeans Asius Yes eagle Trojans Other Polydamus Yes snow falling stones thrown No cattle Sarpedon > Greeks Yes lion Sarpedon

8 No whirlwind Lycians ἴσος No a diver Epicles falling ἔοικα Yes Yes Yes boundary fight spinner woman shepherd > ram s fleece Armies Armies > heavy stone No night ἀτάλαντος No flame or squall Trojans ἴσος No flame εἴκελος Poseidon Yes hawk Poseidon Yes deer Trojans ἔοικα Poseidon Yes boulder Yes Yes fallen ash tree lions > goat Imbrius Ajaxes > Imbrius Yes lightning bronze ἐναλίγκιος No children Idomeneus + Idomeneus Meriones No flame Idomeneus εἴκελος Yes Yes storm + dust oak, poplar, pine the battle Asius falling No pillar, tree Alcathous No not a child Idomeneus Yes boar Idomeneus Yes ram > sheep Aeneas > Trojans ὡς εἰ No vulture Meriones No a charred stake spear Yes bull tied up Adamas

9 Yes beans leap arrow glances off No worm Harpalion No a blazing fire Armies δέμας No flame εἴκελος Yes oxen Ajaxes No a snowy mountain ἔοικα Yes winds Trojans ἀτάλαντος No than falcons horses faster Comp. Ajax Yes Yes the sea heaving 10K warriors Nestor pondering Poseidon s shout ὅσσος No sun Hera's white veil No lightning Poseidon s sword εἴκελος No waves crashing shouts of armies ὅσσος No roar of fire cry of armies ὅσσος No No shrieking wind a whirling top shouts of armies ὅσσος Yes oak falling No poppy Yes a mind darting Ilioneus with spear in his eye φὴ Hera flies Yes snow, hail Iris flying No not a coward Poseidon Poseidon Yes falcon Apollo ἔοικα Yes Yes a horse escaping a lion vs a stag or goat vs Danaans Yes beasts Apollo sends panic

10 attacking cattle,sheep on Achaeans Yes spear cast Apollo s path length ὅσσος Yes Yes Yes Yes a boy scattering sand a wave over a ship a ship s timber dog > a wounded fawn Apollo destroys wall Trojans over the wall battle is even Antilochus > Melanippus Yes a beast Antilochus ἔοικα No lions Trojans ἔοικα Yes Ares or fire Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes a wall or steep rock a wave falling on a ship a cattle a skilled horseman eagle > flock of birds a dark spring Danaans ἠύτε > Achaeans Ajax walking on ship decks > ship Patroclus Yes a silly child Patroclus ἠύτε Achilles No an alien with no rights Achilles ὡς εἰ Achilles Yes wolves Myrmidon leaders No Phylas son Eudorus ὡς εἰ Yes fitted stones helmets + shields Yes wasps Myrmidons ἔοικα Yes Zeus > a Danaans > fire

11 Book dense cloud Yes Yes Yes Yes wolves > lambs cloud + storm rivers roaring man > fish Yes vultures Yes Yes oak, poplar, pine bull Danaans > Trojans + Trojans mares neighing Patroclus > Thestor Patroclus + Sarpedon Sarpedon falling Sarpedon > Patroclus ἠύτε Yes falcon Patroclus ἔοικα Yes javelin flight Trojan retreat ὅσσος Yes woodcutters noise of weapons Yes flies > milk pail Armies > Sarpedon No a diver Cebriones ἔοικα Yes Yes farm stalls lions > slain deer Patroclus > Cebriones Patroclus + > Cebrones ἔχων Yes storm winds Armies Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes boar cow > her calf leopard, lion, boar stormy wind > olive sapling herdsmen > a heifer farm > Patroclus Menelaus > Patroclus Panthous' sons ὅσσος Menelaus Menelaus > Euphorbus Trojans > Menelaus > Patroclus Menelaus > Patroclus οἷος No a tower Ajax' shield ἠύτε

12 Yes Yes cubs wave roaring Ajax > Patroclus Trojans shouting Yes wild boar Ajax εἴκελος No fire Yes stretching a bull s hide Armies around Patroclus body Armies dragging Patroclus body δέμας Yes pillar horses No Yes No vulture > geese ox slayer > ox bloody lion > a bull Automedon > Trojans Automedon > Aretus Automedon > Aretus corpse Yes rainbow Athena ἠύτε Yes fly Menelaus' courage Other Yes Yes Yes a fat cow eagle > hare dogs > boar Menelaus > Patroclus Menelaus > Nestor s son Trojans > Achaeans ἔοικα Yes city on fire Ajaxes ἠύτε Yes Yes Yes mules drag a beam, ship timber a ridge > water falcon > starlings + jackdaws Ajaxes drag Patroclus Ajaxes > Trojans Aeneas + > Achaeans No fire Armies δέμας No a sapling Achilles ἴσος Thetis No a plant Achilles Thetis No honey anger Comp. Achilles No smoke anger ἠύτε Achilles

13 No a flame εἴκελος Yes shepherds lion body Ajaxes Patroclus Yes flames Achilles Yes trumpet Achilles voice Yes lion Achilles No young women Hephaestus handmaids ἔοικα No a sapling Achilles ἴσος Thetis No a plant Achilles Thetis Yes potter men running No falcon Thetis No flame Achilles' eyes ὡς εἰ No falcon Athena ἔοικα Yes snow-flakes helmets No fire Achilles' eyes ὡς εἰ No moon Achilles shield ἠύτε Yes fire in mountains Achilles shield No star Achilles helmet No wings Achilles armor ἠύτε No whirlwind Ares ἴσος Yes lion Achilles No not child me/aeneas Aeneas No not children Aeneas to Achilles Aeneas Yes not women Achilles + Anaeas Aeneas No fire Achilles' hands ἔοικα No blazing iron Achilles ἔοικα Yes bull Hippodamas

14 No flame s spear εἴκελος No not a child Yes fire Achilles Yes thresher Achilles Yes Yes No fire > locusts dolphin > fish dazed fawns Achilles > Trojans Achaeans > Trojans 12 Trojans ἠύτε No bull Achilles bellowing ἠύτε No spear cast Achilles run ὅσσος Yes black eagle Achilles ἔχων Yes water faster > a man Scamander > Achilles Yes swineherd Achilles Achilles Yes Yes Boreas > an orchard cauldron boiling Hephaestus burned dead Xamthus Yes leaves mortals ἔοικα Apollo Yes falcon > dove Hera > Artemis Yes burning city Achilles Yes hunter > leopard Achilles > Agenor ἠύτε No fawns Trojans ἠύτε Yes race horse Achilles Yes a star Achilles Yes man > serpent Achilles > No woman Yes youth > maiden Achilles > ὅσσος No fire, sun bronze εἴκελος

15 Yes falcon > dove Achilles > ἠύτε No fire hot spring ὡς εἰ No hail, snow, ice Yes race horses Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes dog > fawn dream figures lions/wolves > men/lambs eagle > hare, lamb evening star city mourners cold spring ἔοικα Achilles + Achilles > Achilles > Achilles > > Achilles Achilles Achilles spear οἷος Trojans ἐναλίγκιος No a maenad Andromache ἴσος No smoke Patroclus ἠύτε Yes No No Yes father > son cloud or whirlwind a deaf person discus throw Achilles > Patroclus dust Antilochus ἔοικα run distance ὅσσος No moon horse spot ἠύτε Yes Yes horse > cart ripening crop Menelaus > Antilochus ὅσσος Menelaus heart ὡς εἰ Yes fish Euryalus Yes Yes No gablerafters weaver > rod mother to Odysseus Ajax + Odysseus Ajax > Odysseus Athena Ajax

16 Yes herdsman s throw of crook Polypoestes throw of iron ὅσσος Yes lion Achilles Yes lead sinker Iris ἴκελος Yes No Yes wide doorway Priam 's death weeping bystanders > murderer Zeus eagle span ὅσσος departure weeping ὡς εἰ Achilles > Priam No lion Achilles Yes someone killed by Apollo ἴκελος Hecuba Book No Table VI-2 Odyssey: Simile Characteristics father > son Athena > Telemachus Telemachus No bird Athena No No father of subjects a gentle father Odysseus Telemachus Odysseus Mentor Yes pirates Telemachus οἷος Nestor No mountains waves ἴσος No child Eteoneus Menelaus No Yes No Yes sun or moon fawns shepherd > flocks ox slayer > ox Menelaus house Odysseus > suitors ὡς ὁπότε Menelaus Proteus > seals Eidothea Aegisthus > Agamemnon Proteus

17 Table VI-2 Odyssey: Simile Characteristics No blazing fire Antinous eyes ἔοικα Yes lion Penelope ὅσσος No father Odysseus Athena Yes seabird Hermes ἔοικα Yes shipbuilder Odysseus ὅσσος No shield Phaeacia Yes Yes thistle stalk wind > chaff heap raft in wind wind > planks No horse rider Odysseus on plank Yes No children to recovering father as far as a voice carries Odysseus return Odysseus distance from shore ὅσσος Yes octopus Odysseus Yes fire brand Odysseus No wind Athena Yes Artemis Nausicaa οἷος Yes sheep Odysseus > girls Yes palm shoot Nausicaa Other Odysseus No Yes No No No No hyacinth blossoms artist > gold + silver as far as a voice carries a wing or thought sun or moon poplar leaves Odysseus hair ὅμοιος Athena > Odysseus park to city distance ὅσσος Nausicaa swift ships ὡς εἰ Athena gleam of palace servants at work οἷος

18 Yes No Yes Table VI-2 Odyssey: Simile Characteristics mule team range not a game player captain of ship Clytoneus lead in race ὅσσος Odysseus ἐίσκω Euryalus Odysseus ἐίσκω Euryalus No not athlete Odysseus ἔοικα Euryalus No cobwebs Hephaestus bands ἠύτε Demodocus Yes woman Odysseus crying Yes Yes Yes leaves and flowers not breadeater: a peak load of 22 wagons number of Cicones ὅσσος Odysseus Polyphemus ἔοικα Odysseus rock in door Other Odysseus Yes pirates Odysseus crew οἷος Polyphemus No puppies 2 of Odysseus crew Odysseus No lion Polyphemus Odysseus Yes quiver cap door stone ὡς εἰ Odysseus Yes a mast club size ὅσσος Odysseus Yes drill in ship stake in eye Odysseus Yes No No No No Yes No axe in water as far as a voice carries peak of a mountain not men but Giants fish (to be speared) dogs > master pigs penned stake hissing Odysseus shore distance ὅσσος Odysseus Antiphates wife ὅσσος Odysseus Laestrygonians ἔοικα Odysseus Odyssseus crew Odysseus wolves, lions > Eurylochus Odysseus Odysseus crew Hermes No milk herb flower εἴκελος Odysseus

19 Table VI-2 Odyssey: Simile Characteristics No mute Odysseus ἴσος Circe Yes No calves > cows shadow or dream crew > Odysseus Odysseus ghost of Odysseus mother εἴκελος Odysseus No dream spirit ἠύτε Odysseus No mountain wave ἴσος Odysseus No bard Odysseus Alcinous Yes Yes ox slayer > ox slaughter of pigs Aegisthus > Agamemnon Agamemnon s companions Agamemnon Agamemnon No birds the dead Odysseus No night Heracles ἔοικα Odysseus No puppy Scylla ὅσσος Circe No cauldron Charybdis Odysseus Yes fish caught Odysseus crew Odysseus No diver boat pilot ἔοικα Odysseus No sea-crows Odysseus crew ἴκελος Odysseus No a bat Odysseus on fig-tree Odysseus Yes Yes supper time a tired farmer spars appear from Charybdis ἦμος Odysseus Odysseus No death crew sleep ἔοικα Yes 4 yoked stallions ship No beasts dogs ἔοικα No tree shoot Telemachus ἴσος Eumaeus No stream Odysseus trip ὡς εἰ Odysseus No sea-crows Odysseus crew ἴκελος Odysseus No star Helen s robe No a father to Menelaus Nestor Menelaus

20 Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Table VI-2 Odyssey: Simile Characteristics eagle > goose sea bird plunging father > his son sea birds or eagles father > son 2 fawns Odysseus > vengeance Phoenician woman falling Eumaeus > Telemachus Odysseus + Telemachus Comp. Helen Eumaeus Nestor > Telemachus ὡς εἰ Telemachus Odysseus > suitors ὡς ὁπότε No king Antinous ἔοικα Odysseus No rock Odysseus ἠύτε No black fate Antinous ἔοικα Penelope Yes No minstrel > mortals kitchen wife Odysseus > Eumaeus Eumaeus Odysseus ἴσος Irus No a pig Odysseus Irus No white ivory Penelope Comp No a drunk Irus ἔοικα Telemachus No sun amber chain No Yes Yes No No a blazing fire a good king s fame snow melting horn or iron a dried onion Odysseus house glows ὡς εἰ Telemachus Penelope's fame Odysseus Penelope's cheeks Odysseus' eyes unmoving Odysseus tunic shined ὡς εἰ οἷος Odysseus No sun Odysseus tunic Odysseus No Yes stone or iron nightingale s sad song Eurycleia silent Eurycleia Penelope's heart Penelope

21 Table VI-2 Odyssey: Simile Characteristics No ship props 12 axes Penelope Yes Yes No dog growling cook turning sausage a royal king Odysseus' indignation Odysseus thinking Odysseus a beggar ἔοικα Philoetius No night suitors hall ἐίσκω Eurymachus Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes bull bellowing musician strings lyre swallow s voice cattle driven by gadfly vultures > small birds fish on a beach bloody lion > ox thrushes or doves doors ἠύτε Odysseus strings bow bow string εἴκελος suitors routed by aegis Odysseus + son > suitors suitors Odysseus > suitors killed suitors women No bloody lion Odysseus Eurycleia No stone Penelope's heart Comp. Telemachus No hyacinth Odysseus s hair ὅμοιος Yes artist > silver + gold Athena > Odysseus hair No a pillar olive tree ἠύτε Yes Yes No No land > sailors bats squealing sun or moon high-flying eagle Odysseus > Penelope ghosts of suitors Penelope s web ἐναλίγκιος Amphimedo n Odysseus