Argos in Homer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9664973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T W Allen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1909 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 81-98 |
| Publication date | 1909-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009838800018255 |
| OpenAlex | W2143050329 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This paper is an attempt to elucidate the senses in which this place-name is used in Homer; to assign meanings to the Homeric terms Achaean, Iason and Pelasgic Arge, to ‘Argive’ as a synonym for Greek, and to establish the nature of the Argos over which Agamemnon ruled. I take the Homeric poems as the unity which they profess to be, and which they must be for historical enquiry. Whatever liberties Homer took with his materials (and I credit him with as free a hand as any one has allowed to Pisistratus)it is plain he was careful to respect events. The effort to distinguish between old and new in the Iliad and Odyssey has caused needless and fruitless encumbrance to the official historians, such as Busolt; the Unitarian position has given us the remarkable results of Professor Myres' (paper on the Pelasgians, J.H.S. 1907, 170 sqq.). The consistency of Mr. Myres' account, and I venture to hope of mine, allows a fresh inference back to the homogeneity of the poems which are their source
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2021 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |