Achilles and Odysseus, formulaic counterparts of Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum
2022.02.17| By Gregory R. Crane I note here something that I discovered recently that surprised me and that I hope to explore more fully in the near future: the Greek names Ἀχιλλεύς and Ὀδυσσεύς are, from a metrical point of view, exactly equivalent. They have the same number of syllables… Read more