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[676] These are small islands among the Sporades, only Kos having attained any subsequent importance; the Cyclades are not mentioned at all. Pheidippos and Antiphos again are named only here; the mention of their Herakleid descent looks as if these lines came from the same source as the Rhodian episode above. All the islands were Dorian colonies, but Kos at least had legends of colonization from Thessaly, whence Thessalos is brought into the genealogy. This is again an anachronism, as the Thessalian name is elsewhere ignored in H.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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