Robin Lane Fox wrote a large book about The Iliad which wrote off the tenth chapter of that book, called "Doloneia". The rest of Fox' book dealt with the Iliad without it. Whatever conversations Fox was engaging with wider Homerian scholarship elsewhere, here we cannot blame Fox: Fox was delivering the consensus scholarship of AD~2020.
But maybe the Doloneia isn't a bust. Maybe it is merely corrupted. Christos Tsagalis is making that argument - and Andromache Karanika is agreeing. (Kind of a Dorian or Arcadian last name... shouldn't she be "Andromacha"?)
The deal is that this tenth chapter mirrors the ninth. As, we suppose, an insertion would - or a chapter composed after that one and before the next one. Tsagalis, apparently, is pointing out elements of this Doloneia as do not mirror the ninth, and are further absent from those afterchapters.
Homerists will know "wergon" as the common euphemism for bloody work of swords. This chapter plots a μέγα wἔργον of Greek assassins against Hector over there on the Troy side. - rather, it was supposed to plot so. Somehow, in the retelling, the "work" became nerfed to a ... spying mission. This retelling involved Rhesus of Thrace (whom the Greeks kill) and his horses. Consolation prize!
Or maybe all that Rhesus stuff didn't belong in The Iliad and was stuffed into this tenth chapter. So the book and its reviewer argue.
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