On Odyssey 10.503-74 (end)
This one might take a few sittings.
I neglected to mention, when it was appropriate and to my point, that poplars and willows are riparian trees. The headland the ship of Odysseus is supposed to meet once he’s crossed through Oceanus, is described as λάχεια, which I sheepishly render ‘small’, but nobody really knows what the word means. The trees form a grove of Persephone there. The men will head off from Circe’s Isle over the salt sea, but the place they will put in is either the far bank of a river or a lake shore. The Oceanus is a fresh water stream. Of some kind.
Jno Cook’s book and site are here.
My paper on the Polar Bear is here.
A recording of this passage in my English translation is here:
A full performance of Homer’s hexameters in Greek awaits at the end of this post:
