Thinking about the two interesting similes in book 12 (154-161; 277-289) comparing thrown stones to snowfall.
Very peculiar… and what’s really wild to me is that two other passages involving stones similarly echo each other: when both Hector and Ajax throw stones such as “men of today” are too weak to even pick up (384, 489).
Nothing to say about this really but one obvious thing is that the snowfall comparison suggests the lightness of the stones while the Ajax/ Hector passages suggest their extreme heaviness.
Notable: all four of these instances use a different word for ‘stone.’
Also: we might remember that Ajax and Hector threw stones at each other in Book 7.
In general, must say that Book 12 is a surprising book!
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