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Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion

Note 473 — Chapter V · THE DEMONOLOGY OF GHOSTS AND SPRITES AND BOGEYS.

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Post-Hom. II. 509

δοιαὶ ἄρ’ ἀμφοτέροισι θεῶν ἑκάτερθε παρέσταν Κῆρες· ἐρεμναίη μὲν ἔβη ποτὶ Μέμνονος ἦτορ φαιδρὴ δ’ ἀμφ’ Ἀχιλῆα δαΐφρονα.

Mr T. R. Glover, in the chapter on Quintus Smyrnaeus in his Life and Letters in the Fourth Century, points out that the Keres in the poem of Quintus have developed a supremacy unknown to Homer, they are ἄφυκτοι—even the gods cannot check them. They are by-forms of Aisa and Moira.

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