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A Homer Commentary in Progress

Iliad 2.594-2.600

Greg Nagy

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

Read in Context

This negative encounter between Thamyris and the Muses in the Iliad is to be contrasted with the positive encounter between Homer and the Delian Maidens in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo.