“There are six other Homeric instances [besides between Telemachus and Pisistratus] of the formula (ἐμῷ) κεχαρισμένε θυμῷ [“joy of my heart” / “my heart’s delight”]. One is quite colorless: Agamemnon to Diomedes (Iliad, Book X, 234); two reveal the feelings of divinities towards their protégés: Athena to Diomedes (Iliad, Book V, 826), and Dionysus to the steersman (Hymn VII 55); and in the remaining three, strong affection between mortals is involved: Sthenelus to Diomedes (Iliad, Book V, 243), Achilles to Patroclus (Iliad, Book XI, 608), and Briséis to the dead Patroclus (Iliad, Book XIX, 287), a scene highly charged with emotion.”
— William Poole (Euripides, Women, Sexuality, edited by Anton Powell, page 130)















