L'échange des armures entre Diomède et Glaucos, (Iliade VI, 232-236)

Abstract

Commentary on an enigmatic scene of canto VI of the Iliad: the exchange of Glauco’s golden armour for Diomedes’s bronze armour. Discussion of this kind of gift and counter-gift (between xeínoi) in this Homeric poem, as well as of the motif that would cause Zeus to “take reason from Glauco”, leading him to accept such an unfavourable and disproportionate exchange.