#talking about 'chronologically later but narratively earlier' i love textual temporalities

[finelythreadedsky]

i'm supposed to be writing about tragedy but that moment in iliad 22 when andromache sees hector dead and tears off the veil "which golden aphrodite gave her on that day when shining-helmed hector led her from the house of eetion after bringing countless bride-gifts"? that veil? was sappho fr 44.