Chapter 14 The Interpolations of Nestor

That several of the passages in which Nestor speaks are very late interpolations, meant to glorify Pisistratus, himself of Nestor's line, is a critical opinion to which we have more than once alluded. The first example is in Iliad, II. 530–568. This passage "is meant at once to present Nestor as the leading counsellor of the Greek army, and to intr