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later, and it may fairly be
suspected in earlier times,
the Athenians were more
than ordinarily jealous of
the fame of their ancestors.
But, amid all the traditions
of the glories of
early Greece embodied in
the Iliad, the Athenians
play a most subordinate
and insignificant part.
Even the few passages
which relate to their ancestors,
Mr. Knight suspects
to be interpolations.
It is possible, indeed, that
in its leading outline, the
Iliad may be true to historic
fact, that in the great
maritime expedition of
western Greece against
the rival and half-kindred
empire of the Laomedon-