ODDLY HOMERIC JOURNEY The Tantalus Meal

Achilles and Hector Peter Paul Rubens

ManEater

"Would that I could be as sure of being able to
       cut your flesh into pieces and eat it raw."
                ~Achilles to Hector, Iliad Samuel Butler translation 22:365

the unspeakable hospitality
of angry flesh toward flesh
Achilles fury


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