530-568

Updated: July 13, 2025

Much later, wild caricature was applied in vase painting to the most romantic scenes in the Odyssey, which were "consecrated" enough. That several of the passages in which Nestor speaks are very late interpolations, meant to glorify Pisistratus, himself of Nestor's line, is a critical opinion to which we have more than once alluded. The first example is in Iliad, II. 530-568.

Andrew Lang - Homer and His Age