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[53] θέων is apparently to be taken with the following words, or we should need the acc. “πὰρ Σιμόεντα”. The expression is an odd one, but the alternative “θεῶν”, adopted by Ar., i.e. ‘Kallikolone of the gods,’ meaning ‘where the gods were,’ is hardly credible. An.indeed says “τόπος οὕτως καλεῖται ἐπὶ τῆς Ἴδης, θεῶν Καλλικολώνη”, but that of course is only a deduction from the present passage. Nothing will evade the difficulty of the sudden naming, as though it were well known, of this locality, which recurs again only in 151. It is needless to say that the attempts which have been made to identify the spot are perfectly futile (see Schliemann Ilios 71). Tradition made it the scene of the judgment of Paris; but whether the name ‘Beauty Hill’ caused or arose from the identification we cannot say. A similar ambiguity as to the accent of “θεων” occurs in 24.74.

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

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