Homer, Iliad

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[590] Therein furthermore the famed god of the two strong arms cunningly wrought a dancing-floor like unto that which in wide Cnosus Daedalus fashioned of old for fair-tressed Ariadne. There were youths dancing and maidens of the price of many cattle, holding their hands upon the wrists one of the other. [595] Of these the maidens were clad in fine linen, while the youths wore well-woven tunics faintly glistening with oil; and the maidens had fair chaplets, and the youths had daggers of gold hanging from silver baldrics. Now would they run round with cunning feet [600] exceeding lightly, as when a potter sitteth by his wheel that is fitted between his hands and maketh trial of it whether it will run; and now again would they run in rows toward each other. And a great company stood around the lovely dance, taking joy therein; [605] and two tumblers whirled up and down through the midst of them as leaders in the dance. Therein he set also the great might of the river Oceanus, around the uttermost rim of the strongly-wrought shield. But when he had wrought the shield, great and sturdy, [610] then wrought he for him a corselet brighter than the blaze of fire, and he wrought for him a heavy helmet, fitted to his temples, a fair helm, richly-dight, and set thereon a crest of gold; and he wrought him greaves of pliant tin. But when the glorious god of the two strong arms had fashioned all the armour, [615] he took and laid it before the mother of Achilles. And like a falcon she sprang down from snowy Olympus, bearing the flashing armour from Hephaestus.

There are a total of 31 comments on and cross references to this page.

Further comments from Allen Rogers Benner, Selections from Homer's Iliad:
book 18, card 590 (general note)
book 18, card 590: choron
book 18, card 590: allêlôn
book 18, card 590: leptas othonas
book 18, card 590: heiat'
book 18, card 590: o
book 18, card 590: ex
book 18, card 590: hote men
book 18, card 590: threxaskon
book 18, card 590: epistamenoisi
book 18, card 590: epi stichas
book 18, card 590: allêloisin
book 18, card 590: terpomenoi
book 18, card 590: molpês exarchontos
book 18, card 590: hêken
book 18, card 590: knêmidas
book 18, card 590: teuchea marmaironta

Cross references from Perseus Encyclopedia:
hesiod [Hesiod]

Cross references from Andrew Stewart, One Hundred Greek Sculptors: Their Careers and Extant Works:
2, 1, 1 [Daedalus]: And the renowned smith of the strong arms made elaborate on it A dancing floor like that which once in the wide spaces of Knossos Daidalos built for Ariadne of the lovely tresses

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
* [693-718]

Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
7, 91 [Book 7 (ê)]
8, 267 [Book 8 (th)]

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Homer. The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.
OCLC: 38101377
ISBN: 0674991885, 0674991893

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