Harpalion, and more deer

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Didn't get far today.  Harpalion, son of Pylaemenes, gets killed by Meriones (who kills a lot of people, without ever really having much of a story himself).  His weeping father follows his body back to Troy.  Which is odd, because his father died in book 5.  Did Homer/ the bardic collective/ the oral tradition forget?  I bet someone has written a lot about this.

A simile about panic-stricken deer.  I may not have found the right one, because the deer is described as fearing her guests, and guests don't appear in the Greek (but they do, in the passage about the death of Harpalion, so maybe that's it).  Harpalion is apparently a scaredy-cat.  Like the deer. Though unlike the deer around here, who are scared of nothing, and have just eaten all our spinach.  Maybe we should import some wolves.

  I suspect I'm missing something.

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