The Imagery of Elephenor’s death
Oswald expounds, “ELEPHENOR from Euboea is command of forty ships/ Son of Chalcodon nothing is known of his mother/Died dragging the corpse of Echepolus/A little flash of flesh showing under the shield as he bent/Agenor stabbed him in the ninth year of the war/He wore his hair long at the back.” Elephenor’s death transpires in the backdrop of Echepolus’s body. His concentration on the corpse bids Agenor a seamless opening to terminate his existence.
The Imagery of Diores and Pirous
Oswald describes, “DIORES son of Amarinceus/Struck by a flying flint/Died in a puddle of his own guts/Slammed down into mud lies/With his arms stretched out to his friends/And PIROUS the Thracian/You can tell him by his knotted hair/Lies alongside him/He killed him and was killed/There seem to be black flints/Everywhere a man steps.” In this imagery, there are double deaths. The presence of the mud demonstrates that the flints were targeted effectively resulting in the Diores’ fall. Pirous’ hair is an aspect which discriminates him from Diores. The omnipresent flints sanctions that they are deadly weapons employed in the extermination.
