Greek Texts & Translations

He distinguishes the identity of name by epithets; he calls Thessaly, Pelasgic Argos; all who dwelt in Pelasgic Argos; ^note
Il. ii. 681. and the Peloponnesus, the Achaean Argos; if we should return to Achaean Argos;
Il. ix. 141. was he not at Achaean Argos?
Od. iii. 251. intimating in these lines that the Peloponnesians were called peculiarly Achaeans according to another designation.

He calls also the Peloponnesus, Argos Jasum; if all the Achaeans throughout Argos Jasum should see you, ^note
Od. xviii. 245. meaning Penelope, she then would have a greater number of suitors; for it is not probable that he means those from the whole of Greece, but those from the neighbourhood of Ithaca. He applies also to Argos terms common to other places, pasturing horses, and abounding with horses. 6

There is a controversy about the names Hellas and Hellenes. Thucydides ^note says that Homer nowhere mentions Barbarians, because the Greeks were not distinguished by any single name, which expressed its opposite. Apollodorus also says, that the inhabitants of Thessaly alone were called Hellenes, and alleges this verse of the poet, they were called Myrmidones, and Hellenes; ^note
Il. ii. 684. but Hesiod, and Archilochus, in their time knew that they were all called Hellenes, and Panhellenes: the former calls them by this name in speaking of the Proetides, and says that Panhellenes were their suitors; the latter, where he says that the calamities of the Panhellenes centred in Thasus.

But others oppose to this, that Homer does mention Barbarians, when he says of the Carians, that they spoke a barbarous language, and that all the Hellenes were comprised in the term Hellas; of the man, whose fame spread throughout Hellas and Argos. ^note
Od. i. 344. And again, but if you wish to turn aside and pass through Greece and the midst of Argos. ^note
Od. xv. 80.