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[52] The clear mention here of the city of Argos, like the epithet “Ἀργείη” applied to Hera in l. 8, marks this passage as composed after the Dorian conquest — one of the few cases in Homer where the traditional prae-Dorian character of the poems has been forgotten. It was, of course, that invasion which created the city of Argos at the expense of Mykenai; the two can never have existed side by side as they are represented here. The hearer is naturally expected to apply the words only to the fall of Mykenai, represented as the price paid for the conquest of Troy.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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