Note 24 — Chapter XII
Reading edition
For a variety of theories, see Leaf, Notes to Iliad, iii. 278, xix. 262. Quite possibly the formula of the oath is a survival from a stage of belief more archaic than the ordinary Homeric conception of Hades.
Reading edition
For a variety of theories, see Leaf, Notes to Iliad, iii. 278, xix. 262. Quite possibly the formula of the oath is a survival from a stage of belief more archaic than the ordinary Homeric conception of Hades.