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A Homer Commentary in Progress

Homeric Hymns To Aphrodite 196-197

Greg Nagy

Last updated at March 12, 2020, 4:47 p.m.

Read in Context

analysis of the Aeneas tradition present in the Iliad and here especially Poseidon’s prophecy of Aeneas’ descendants as ruling in the Troad and the god’s cult affinity with the Aeneadae