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[483] From this point Zen. rejected the whole description of the shield (App. I, § 14). For a Mykenaean representation of the heavenly bodies see the great gold ring from Mykene, Schuchh. fig. 281 (p. 277) where the sun and moon are at the top, separated from the rest of the field by a wavy line which may stand for the horizon, or more probably for clouds. Schol. T on this line quotes one of the most curious ancient explanations of the Shield, that of Agallis of Corcyra. This lady held that it represented the early history of Attica, the two cities being Attica and Eleusis. Reference must be made to the scholion for details (see also Schol. A on 490 where the name is wrongly given as “Ἀγαλλίας”). Maximus Tyrius thought that the two cities were Phaiakia and Ithaka, as types of good government and anarchy.

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

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