[558] ἄγων: for the use of the partic., cf. “ἀμφιέποντες” v. 525.—Ajax here is brought into such close connection with Athens that he appears as a national hero of Attica. This was in accord with the later Athenian tradition. One of the ten tribes (“φυλαί”) of Attica was named “Αἰαντίς”, after him.
559-644. Peloponnesus, Western Islands, Aetolia. 559-624. Peloponnesus. 559-568. Argos.This text is part of:
Homer's Iliad, Books I-III. Thomas D. Seymour. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1891.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.