Mullen (1982) citing Fränkel [1975] on the song and a possible da capo repetition of its concluding sentence, calling upon the chorus to start, 'so that all the spectators lining the streets along the route might hear it in its entirety'; Kurke (1988) shifting the emphasis from performance to composition, observing the 'looping effect' of an ending that proceeds into the beginning; comment on the lyric ending that comes full circle to a Homeric beginning