Crates

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Iliad 14.245-246-246a

analysis of the theme of Okeanos in Crates’ edition of Homer, its difference from Aristarchus’ edition, and how the passage appears in modern editionsOur source for this set of verses, ... Continue reading

Iliad 18.483-608

... one of these athetized verses, I.18.499. See the comment below on I.18.499. By contrast with Zenodotus, an editor like Crates considered the entire narrative of the Shield to be ... Continue reading

Iliad 21.194–197

... starchus in his efforts to purge Homeric poetry from what he considered to be Orphic elements. At the other extreme was Crates, whose edition of Homer did not treat the supposedly ... Continue reading