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June 23, 2007

boy horse games

a boy on a pounding horse […] so with our games (1.VI.i).

In this part of Book VI, the narrator addresses Omeros, and makes a link between the games of Homeric times that feature in the Iliad (wrestling, racing), and the games that are taking place on this beach of St Lucia; here, then, the St Lucian islanders echo the classical heroes of Homer's poetry.


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