![]() The Iliad is not only a variant in its own right, it is also a compression. In another or other versions of the story of Briseis, she is named Hippodameia and was taken from Pedasos. In the Iliad Briseis is named Briseis and she was captured by Achilles in the sack of Lyrnessos. In fact it is misleading to think of versions that differ from the Iliad as we know it as “variants.” If, for lack of a better word, we use the term variant, we must acknowledge that the Iliad is itself a variation on any number of ways to tell a story about Troy, and that within the Iliad itself there are references to other variants. In such a system, as Albert Lord demonstrated, there can technically be no original from which all others are copies. ![]() In an oral traditional song culture such as that in which the Iliad and Odyssey were composed, each new performance is a new composition. ![]() ![]() Briseis and the Multiformity of the Iliad ![]()
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