First, an explanation of this poem.
Zielinski’s Law Controversy over “Zielinski’s Law,” also known as the “continuity of time principle” or “Sukzessionsgesetz” (“law of succession”), has been a lively feature of recent Homeric scholarship…the rule states that Homeric narrative always moves forward and so cannot depict two simultaneous actions. -Ruth Scodel In reading epics it has been postulated That no two actions may happen all at once. One throws a spear, then having politely waited, The other casts his own, the action stunts. The nature of time in the old poems epic-al Is successive successions, which made them successful.