A súplica do aedo Fêmio para não ser degolado (Odisseia 22, 342-53)

Abstract

This article is an attempt or essay of a more detailed and accurate interpretation, through the translation and mainly the detailed commentary, of the Greek text of the singer Phemius’ supplication not to have his throat cut down by Odysseus in the Odyssey (22, 342-53), taking into account not only an adequate lexical and syntactical understanding of the text of this supplication in its basic discursive or rhetorical function, but also its “literary”, social and religious interpretation in the context of the Odyssey (more specifically) and of the Iliad, with a careful attention to the word autodidaktos (“self-taught” or “spontaneous”), whose occurrence here is the only one (a hapax) in Homer.