¹ P. 84 adds that Pylos' underworld connections make it suitable for psychopompic Hermes. I renew the argument that the main (but not sole) motivation is to allude to Olympia in O.R.H. Thomas, ‘Sacrifice and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes 112–41’, forthcoming in S.S. Hitch & I.C. Rutherford (edd.), Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World. N. dismisses a reference to Olympia on the surprising grounds that mentioning the Alpheus was unlikely to cue Olympia for her envisaged audience (p. 28); nevertheless she does later assume such a cue, e.g. in Chapter 2.5.