[39] _Il._ ix. 465 ff. [40] 458-462. [41] ix. 550 ff. [42] Pausanias, x. 31. 2; Ovid, _Met._ viii. 450, 531. [43] 581 ff. [44] 575 ff. [45] The conflict between the Calydonians and the Curetes (another Aetolian people) had arisen over the body of the famous boar. [46] _Supra_, p. 58 ff.; _infra_, p. 76. [47] _Il._ xiv. 119 ff. [48] _H. and H._ p. 254. [49] See Smith, _Dict. Biog. and Myth._ _s.v._ Tydeus. [50] _Supra_, p. 65. [51] _Od._ iii. 300 ff. [52] See _Od._ ix. 408. [53] _Infra_, p. 223 ff. [54] i. 35 ff. [55] _Od._ iii. 263 ff. [56] _Od._ iv. 524 ff.; _cf._ Aeschylus, _Agamemnon_, 1 ff. [57] 526. [58] _Od._ iv. 530 ff. [59] 536-7. [60] _Od._ xi. 409 ff. [61] I take περὶ φασγάνῳ with χεῖρας ἀείρων rather than with ἀποθνῄσκων. Butcher and Lang render: ‘I strove to raise my hands as I was dying upon the sword, but to earth they fell.’ [62] _Od._ i. 288. [63] _Infra_, pp. 218, 236 ff., 239. [64] See Eur. _Or._ 500. [65] Euripides, _Troades_, 900 ff. [66] i. 298 ff. [67] _Supra_, p. 59. [68] _Supra_, p. 60. [69] _Supra_, p. 55. [70] _Supra_, p. 56. [71] _E.g._ Glotz, p. 48; Eichhoff, _Blutrache_, chap. i. [72] _Supra_, p. 60. [73] _Supra_, p. 70. [74] _Supra_, p. 60. [75] _Supra_, p. 60. [76] _Il._ xiv. 480 ff. [77] i. 28. [78] _Od._ iii. 196; _Il._ xiv. 480. [79] xiii. 258. CHAPTER IV JUDICIAL ASPECT OF HOMICIDE IN EARLY GREECE Current views criticised: author’s theory based on distinction between Achaean and Pelasgian societies: arguments from survivals in historical times: meaning of δικασπόλοι βασιλῆες: the Trial-Scene in the Homeric Shield of Achilles: origin of trials for homicide.