Abstract

VERDE CASTRO, Carmen Victoria. Los juegos funerales en honor de Patroclo (Ilíada, XXIII.257 ss.). Synthesis (La Plata) [online]. 2011, vol.18, pp. 13-43. ISSN 0328-1205.

The Funeral Games in honor of Patroclus shows the catalogue of contenders as a structural component in three different versions. The present work analyzes the way in which this structural component reveals accidentals or unexplainable aspects of human life from the point of view of Homeric Ethic

Keywords : Funeral Games; Patroclus; The Iliad.