people
The Greeks
the Greeks
also: Danai, Danaum
The Greek host that sailed against Troy; their chosen chieftains are the "first of men" who defile Diana's altar with Iphigenia's blood.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of Things §5.25 the old poets of the Greeks
The Greeks, whose poets Lucretius treats as charming but unreliable on the nature of things.
- On the Nature of Things §6.11 Greeks
The Greeks, whose name for the sea-whirlwind (prester) Lucretius adopts and explains by natural causes.