The Last Events before the Sack (page 639 lower)

Chapter 16, The Trojan War

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Homer, Odyssey 4.274-76

Then thou camest thither, and it must be that thou wast bidden [275] by some god, who wished to grant glory to the Trojans, and godlike Deiphobus followed thee on thy way.  Greek Text

Homer, Odyssey 8.517-20

Of the others he sang how in divers ways they wasted the lofty city, but of Odysseus, how he went like Ares to the house of Deiphobus together with godlike Menelaus. There it was, he said, that Odysseus braved the most terrible fight [520] and in the end conquered by the aid of great-hearted Athena.  Greek Text

Ilias Mikra (Little Iliad) Argumentum – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 74, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.

Homer, Odyssey 11.508-9

I it was, myself, who brought him from Scyros in my shapely, hollow ship to join the host of the well-greaved Archaeans.  Greek Text

Pindar, Paian 6.98-104 – Pindarus 2, p. 29, ed. B. Snell and H. Maehler. Leipzig 1975.

Sophokles, Skyrioi fr 555R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta vol. 4, pp. 420-21, ed. S.L. Radt. Göttingen 1977.

Edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, February 2023

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