dêmos
idea · 2 works · 9 mentions · 27 anchored passages
district · a district · demos · fertile district · people · people of the local district · public opinion · the people
in the texts
Odyssey
The Greek term for a people, district, or community, used explicitly twice in the passage.
We will make everything good among ourselves in this district [ dêmos], and pay you in full for all that we have eaten and drunk.
"Dogs, did you think that I should not come back from the dêmos of the Trojans?
If my brave father Odysseus ever did you loyal service, either by word or deed, when you Achaeans were harassed at the district [ dêmos] of the Trojans, bear it in mind now as in my favor and tell me truly all.
Iliad
The Greek concept of a people or district, explicitly glossed as 'dêmos' in three separate passages describing local communities.
They then took two princes with their chariot, the two sons of Merops of Perkote, who excelled in the arts of divination all others from the district [ dêmos].
Neleus was angered by what he had both said and done, and took great value in return, but he gave the rest to the people of the district [ dêmos] to divide among themselves, so that no man might have less than his full share.
The Trojans, on the other side upon the rising slope of the plain, were gathered round great Hektor, noble Polydamas, Aeneas who was honored in the district [ dêmos] of the Trojans like an immortal, and the three sons of Antenor - Polybos, Agenor, and young Akamas, beauteous as a god.