Re: [tied] Meteoric iron, self-smelted

> There is mention of cast iron in the Iliad:[Il. XXIII.826]; a disk is
> the prize in a disk-throwing competition; the disk is of iron and
> is [auto-choo:nos]
>
> What does this description mean? Self-smelted (meteoric) iron?

Some editors take it that way, others as rough-cast iron. The second part
of the compound is from choo:nos (for usual choanos) = the mould or hole in
which metal was cast, related to the verb cheo:

Iron is mentioned at times in Homer, but it is unlikely to be Mycenaean - it
is far more likely that these are later passages worked into the text.

Peter