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[332] The legend of the bringing of Neoptolemos from Skyros, where he was reared by his grandfather Lykomedes, is given in Od. 11.506 ff. There, as in the later Cycle, he brings about the end of the siege of Troy; here he is evidently regarded as too young to travel alone, much less to fight. The discrepancy is inherent too in the conception of Achilles as quite a boy when he left home for Troy; see 9.437-43, 11.783 ff. But such anachronisms are a small matter to a poet seeking for pathos.

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

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