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A Homer Commentary in Progress

Iliad 2.100-2.108

Greg Nagy

Last updated at March 12, 2020, 4:43 p.m.

Read in Context

In the Homeric Iliad, the hero Pelops figures as an archetype of political power. The sequence of kings in the Peloponnesus is limited to the dynastic lineage starting with Pelops.