Re: Dawn, Reestablishing Space and Time, I’m noticing how dawn is mentioned again at line 50, and a succession of “shouts” that intervene between the two mentions.
Dawn produces light; Zeus sends down Strife; Strife positions herself where you can hear a cry (γεγωνέω) from one end of the fleet to the other — and shouts (αὔω); Agamemnon shouts (βοάω) and commands the soldiers; the soldiers themselves (after a long discussion of Agamemnon’s armor) shout (ἄσβεστος δὲ βοὴ) “before the dawn”; finally Zeus produces a “din of battle” (κυδοιμός) and sends a morning dew of blood (???) down.
The general impression I get is of a scene growing more clamorous as it grows brighter…. What, though, to make of that involved description of Agamemon’s armor?
.i`` * ^ / . . . . . ` `~ 