摘 要: | In his article "Argos andArgives in the Iliad" (1979) Robert Drews argued for reviving an idea, first brought forward by William D. Geddes in 18782 and later on fully developed in Paul Cauer's "Grundfragen der Homerkritik", according to which the origins of heroic poetry and of the Iliad in particular are to be sought in the less civilized northern regions of the Mycenaean world, especially in the realms of Thessaly. This area was known to the composer of the Catalog of Ships as the "Pelasgic Argos"; this was the home of the people called Hellenes and Achaians, who set out against Troy with 50 ships led by Achilles (Ⅱ.Ⅱ 681-685).
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