In Iliad xiii 754-55, Hector is compared, as he runs forward with a shout, to a mountain covered with snow. This simile was celebrated by the scholia and by Eustathius, but has been criticised by most modern scholars. In this paper this negative opinions are examined taking into account not only ancient and modern scholarship, but also intertextual reflections by poets like Virgil and Milton, as well as evaluations by ‘classical’ commentators such as Madame Dacier and Alexander Pope.