Reference address : https://ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/ancient-Greece/homer/iliad-2.asp?pg=20

ELPENOR - Home of the Greek Word

Three Millennia of Greek Literature
HOMER HOME PAGE  /  HOMER EPICS  

HOMER'S ILIAD COMPLETE

Rhapsody 2

Literally Translated, with Explanatory Notes, by Theodore Alois Buckley

Homer Bilingual Anthology  Studies  Homer in Print



ELPENOR EDITIONS IN PRINT

The Original Greek New Testament
Page 20

Those who possessed Argos, and well-fortified Tiryns, Hermione, and which encircle the Asine deep bay, Troezene, and Eionae, and vine-planted Epidaurus, and those who possessed AEgina, and Mases, Achaean youths. Their leader then was Diomede, brave in war, and Sthenelus, the dear son of much-renowned Capaneus; and with these went Euryalus the third, god-like man, the son of king Mecisteus, Talaus' son; and all these Diomede brave in war commanded. With these eighty dark ships followed.

Those who possessed Mycenae, the well-built city, and wealthy Corinth,[124] and well-built Cleonae, and those who inhabited Ornia, and pleasant Araethyrea, and Sicyon, where Adrastus first reigned: and those who possessed Hyperesia, and lofty Gonoessa, and Pellene, and those who [inhabited] AEgium, and all along the sea-coast,[125] and about spacious Helice. Of these, king Agamemnon, the son of Atreus, commanded a hundred ships: and with him by far the most and bravest troops followed; and he had clothed himself in dazzling brass, exulting in his glory, that he shone conspicuous amongst all heroes; for he was the most eminent, and led by far the most numerous troops.[126]

[Footnote 124: An anachronism, as Corinth, before its capture by the Dorians, was called Ephyra (as in II. vi. 152). "Neque est, quod miremur ab Homero nominari Corinthum, nam ex persona poetae et hanc urbem, et quasdam Ionum colonias iis nominibus appellat, quibus vocabantur aetate ejus, multo post Ilium captum conditae."—Vell. Paterc. i. 3.]

[Footnote 125. I. e. the later Achaia.—Arnold.]

[Footnote 126: On the superior power of Agamemnon, see Grote, vol. i. p. 211 and compare II. ix. 69.]

Previous / First / Next Page of this Rhapsody
Homer's Complete ILIAD & ODYSSEY Contents

Homer Bilingual Anthology ||| Elpenor's Free Greek Lessons
A Commentary on the ODYSSEY ||| Interlinear ILIAD
Three Millennia of Greek Literature

 

Greek Literature - Ancient, Medieval, Modern

  Iliad and Odyssey Home Page   Homer Home Page & Bilingual Anthology
Homer in Print

Elpenor's Greek Forum : Post a question / Start a discussion

Learned Freeware

Reference address : https://ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/ancient-Greece/homer/iliad-2.asp?pg=20