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The Iliad 7.464–478

The Iliad 7.464–478
and the sun set, and the work of the Achaeans was accomplished; and they slaughtered oxen throughout the huts and took supper. And ships full many were at hand from Lemnos, bearing wine, sent forth by Jason's son, Euneus, whom Hypsipyle bare to Jason, shepherd of the host. And for themselves alone unto the sons of Atreus, Agamemnon and Menelaus, had Euneus given wine to be brought them, even a thousand measures. From these ships the long-haired Achaeans bought them wine, some for bronze, some for gleaming iron, some for hides, some for whole cattle, and some for slaves; and they made them a rich feast. So the whole night through the long-haired Achaeans feasted, and the Trojans likewise in the city, and their allies; and all night long Zeus, the counsellor, devised them evil, thundering in terrible wise. Then pale fear gat hold of them,
ὣς οἳ μὲν τοιαῦτα πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἀγόρευον, δύσετο δʼ ἠέλιος, τετέλεστο δὲ ἔργον Ἀχαιῶν, βουφόνεον δὲ κατὰ κλισίας καὶ δόρπον ἕλοντο. νῆες δʼ ἐκ Λήμνοιο παρέσταν οἶνον ἄγουσαι πολλαί, τὰς προέηκεν Ἰησονίδης Εὔνηος, τόν ῥʼ ἔτεχʼ Ὑψιπύλη ὑπʼ Ἰήσονι ποιμένι λαῶν. χωρὶς δʼ Ἀτρεΐδῃς Ἀγαμέμνονι καὶ Μενελάῳ δῶκεν Ἰησονίδης ἀγέμεν μέθυ χίλια μέτρα. ἔνθεν οἰνίζοντο κάρη κομόωντες Ἀχαιοί, ἄλλοι μὲν χαλκῷ, ἄλλοι δʼ αἴθωνι σιδήρῳ, ἄλλοι δὲ ῥινοῖς, ἄλλοι δʼ αὐτῇσι βόεσσιν, ἄλλοι δʼ ἀνδραπόδεσσι· τίθεντο δὲ δαῖτα θάλειαν. παννύχιοι μὲν ἔπειτα κάρη κομόωντες Ἀχαιοὶ δαίνυντο, Τρῶες δὲ κατὰ πτόλιν ἠδʼ ἐπίκουροι· παννύχιος δέ σφιν κακὰ μήδετο μητίετα Ζεὺς
Lattimore commentary
Lemnos (where the Greeks had left behind the commander Philoktetes with his festering snakebite: 2.725) lies fifty miles to the west of Troy. Jason visited it with his Argonauts, welcomed by the Lemnian women (who had killed their errant husbands). Euneos (“good ship”) is his son by Hypsipyle, the Lemnian queen. There may be implied contrasts between Jason’s expedition (in search of an emblem of kingship, the golden fleece; taking back a dangerous woman, Medea) and the current Trojan mission. A subtle touch of class distinction relevant to aristocratic gift-economy: the Atreidai get their wine free, while the ordinary troops must barter for it (even trading slaves).
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