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[447] An attempt to reconcile the different statements in Homer about Amyntor lands us in hopeless confusion. In 10.266 we have an “Ἀμύντωρ Ὀρμενίδης” in Eleon, and in 2.500 we find Eleon in Boiotia; but here Amyntor's kingdom is “Ἑλλάς”. But according to the regular Homeric usage, “Ἑλλάς” is part of the kingdom of Peleus. We may assume perhaps that Amyntor was one of the “ἀριστῆες” of 396, a subordinate chieftain of Hellas, which with the neighbouring district of Phthia made up the kingdom of Peleus in SW. Thessaly. But then we have to reckon with the fact that Ormenos was an eponymus in Northern Thessaly, where we find “Ὀρμένιον” (2.734); of this Ormenos Eurypylos, whose kingdom lay here, was the grandson according to the tradition. The statements in K seem to imply a complete transplantation southwards to Boiotia of the whole legend or genealogy, comparable to that which transferred Eurytos and Oichalia into Peloponnesos (2.595). The location in Phthia will then be an intermediate stage. (See also Bury in J. H. S. xv. 224-5.) Demetrius of Skepsis wanted to read here “Ὀρμένιον πολύμηλον”, according to Strabo (ix. 438-9), instead of “Ἑλλάδα καλλιγύναικα”.

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

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