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grbs-16304	Bourke, Graeme	Strabo and the Epeians of the Iliad	2020	30	.pdf	application/pdf	11527	483	66	Before appraising Strabo’s attempt to establish the significance of the toponyms mentioned here, it is necessary to address two matters: the doubts expressed by certain scholars concerning the prov- enance of an element of the Epeian entry; and the relationship of the passages which comprise the Catalogue of Ships to the Iliad as a whole. In his view, line 2.617, and certain lines of Book 11, were inserted by Alkibiades during his sojourn in Sparta in order to please the Lakedai- monians by placing Nestor’s palace in Lepreatis and thereby justifying the independence of the Lepreans from the Eleians.11 To explain how these lines came to be in the text of the Iliad known to both Strabo and ourselves, Frame hypothesises that upon his return to Athens Alkibiades, who “had simply grown fond of his own contribution to Homer and wished to see it per- petuated,” interpolated the relevant lines into the version of the Iliad recited at the Panathenaia.	cache/grbs-16304.pdf	txt/grbs-16304.txt