Fighting Words and Feuding Words

<I>Fighting Words and Feuding Words</I> engages the powerful tools of Homeric poetic analysis and the anthropological study of emotion in an analysis of two anger terms highlighted in the <I>Iliad</I> by the Achaean prophet Calchas. Walsh argues that <I>kotos</I> and <I>kholos</I> locate two focal points for the study of aggression in Homeric poetry the first presenting Homer's terms for feud and the second providing the native terms that designates the martial violence highlighted by the Homeric tradition.