Note 570 — Chapter XVII · GOVERNMENT IN THE HEROIC AGE.

It has been suggested that the true name for such a gathering was θόωκος (θῶκος) and that this was something different from the ἀγορή (cf. Fanta, op. cit., p. 77); but the evidence for such a distinction is very far from convincing. We may refer to such passages as Od. XII 318 and, more especially, to V 3 (θῶκόνδε), which is clearly parallel to Il. XX 4 (ἀγορήνδε). Cf. Finsler, N. Jahrb., XIII 327.