Note 568 — Chapter XVII · GOVERNMENT IN THE HEROIC AGE.

I cannot help thinking that evidence derived from the Achaean gatherings in the Iliad is somewhat precarious ground on which to build up a theory regarding the constitutional rights possessed by the ἀγορή at home. The same remark applies to such a passage as Od. XII 297, where an important constitutional change (cf. Fanta, op. cit., p. 91) has been inferred from the mutinous behaviour of a ship's crew.