Re: [tied] Ilios

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 4225
Date: 2000-10-10

 
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From: Yves Deroubaix
To: cybalist@eGroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 5:48 PM
Subject: [tied] Ilios

Yves asks:
 
In Homer's Iliad there is usually a hiate before the word Ilios. Why?
According to a Greek dictionary there has never excisted such a thing as
(w)Ilios.
 
 
The dictionary is wrong. The Homeric formula (W)ilios aipeine^ 'steep Ilios' is, as Calvert Watkins has shown, parallelled by Luvian alati Wilusati 'from steep Wilusa' (occurring twice in a song from the 16th c. BC dealing with the city of Wilusa = Gk. *Wilios = Ilios).
 
Piotr