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[639] ἀέθλων is superior to the vulg. “ἄνακτος”, with “ϝ” ignored. Κοπρ̂ηος, evidently a name invented to express contempt. The story was that Eurystheus feared Herakles too much to meet him face to face, and for safety's sake lived in a huge jar sunk in the ground, employing Kopreus as go-between. He appears in this character in the Heraclidae of Euripides. The antecedent to ὅς is “Κοπρῆος”, not “υἱόν”. It is noteworthy that Periphetes is the only Mykenaean who appears in the Iliad; the town is very rarely mentioned except as the realm of Agamemnon.

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

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