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A Homer Commentary in Progress

Iliad 4.327-328

Greg Nagy

Last updated at March 12, 2020, 4:44 p.m.

Read in Context

Menestheus, as the leader of the Athenians who came to fight at Troy, is stationed here next to Odysseus and Agamemnon. On the significance of such proximity, see the comment on I.12.331–337.