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grbs-11741	Davison, J. A.	Thucydides, Homer and the ‘Achaean Wall’	1965	24	.pdf	application/pdf	11328	276	52	Thucydides' idea of how the campaign ought to have developed shows that, allowing for his tendency to think in fifth-century terms (e.g., circumvallation), his picture of the actual state of affairs prevail­ ing in the Achaean camp before Ilios is not so very different from the one which we gather from our texts of the Iliad: a first battle on land­ ing, and after that no direct operations against Ilios-reconnaissances, perhaps, and negotiations (as in Iliad 3.305ff), but otherwise only piratical raids of the type organized by Achilles [Iliad 9.328-9] and per­ haps also by Odysseus (else how had he come by the title 71'TOAllTop8o~, which he already has in Iliad 2.278, and which he alone of the Achaean heroes shares with Achilles?).7 For the military explanation of this 7 Odysseus' title may be anticipatory; by his share in the taking of Troy Odysseus will become the champion TTTO>.tTTOp8os of the age. It is thus legitimate for the student of the part played by Athens in the preservation and dissemination to suggest that apparent resemblances between Homeric and Attic usages are as likely to be due to Attic imitation of Homer as to 'Homeric' imitation of Athens: 'Peisistratos' may have devised the peplos ritual and commissioned a seated statue of Athena after reading or hearing Iliad 6,23 and 'Kimon' may have been given the idea of bringing his men's ashes home from the North Aegean by Iliad 7.	cache/grbs-11741.pdf	txt/grbs-11741.txt