Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age: Prolegomena. Achaeis or, The Ethnology of the Greek races

Oxford University Press, 1858 - Civilization, Homeric

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Their strong development in Heroic Greece	2

Functions of the king in the Heroic Polities	8

Shown by analysis of the Catalogue	14

New name of Queen	21

The first instance of a bad King	27

The nine Greek BaoiXiJ s of the Iliad	35

Achilles in particular	48

Burdens upon them	61

Directions and distances from Mxa onwards	329

Outline of Homers terrestrial system	342

Collateral testimony to the extraction of Minos	347

On the force of the Homeric Art	354

ii 526	362

Offer related in the Ninth Book and its rejection	369

Apology needed in particular	375

Trojan inferiority mainly in the Chiefs	382

The 6rtcs or hired servants	74

Its military composition	89

The Battle and the Ambuscade	92

Opposition in the BouXi	99

Achilles the paramount Orator	105

The faculty of debate in Homer	111

The great decisions of the War taken there	117

Grotes judgment on the case of Thersites	123

Mode of addressing the Assembly	129

Ithacan Assembly of the Twentyfourth	136

Imperfect organization of Heroic Polities	143

THE TROJANS COMPARED AND CONTRASTED	145

Worship of Vulcan in Troas	151

Different view of Rivers in Troas	159

Poverty of Mythology among the Trojans	165

As to endowments in land or reivta	172

Priesthood in Greece	179

Comparative observance of sacrifice	187

Homers account of the abduction of Helen	193

Its relation to prevailing views of Marriage	200

Public opinion less developed in Troy	206

Stricter ideas among the Greeks	215

Paris most probably was his eldest son	221

Extent of his sovereignty and supremacy	228

The greater weight of Age in Troy	235

Trojans less gifted with selfcommand	243

THE OUTER GEOGRAPHY OF THE ODYSSEY	249

Limits of the Inner Geography	255

The Sphere of the Outer Geography	261

Special notices of Eurus and Notus	267

Scheme of the four Winds	273

Homeric distances and rates of speed	275

Opensea passage to the Oceanmouth	289

Argument from the nXayicrai	302

Construction of Od v 276 7	315

On the genuineness of II xiv 31727 344	317

Greeks superior even without Achilles	389

Double conquest over his will	395

human animal and inanimate	397

SECT III	425

Greek estimate of the discovery of Number	431

His silence as to the numbers of the armies	439

Case of the Trojan bivouac	442

Case of the three Decades of years	449

Uses of the proposed interpretation	455

Of Kvavo? and kiwcoc	462

The ai0d6as of Homer	468

rXavKos yXavKamis yavKt6av	474

Especially in the Greek Catalogue 440	478

In the case of human beauty and of Iris	482

His system one of light and dark	489

Greek philosophy of colour	493

XXiem to be understood as hardened copper	499

Catalogue in the Iliad and in the Eneid	505

His false position as to religion liberty and nationality	511

Action of the Twelfth Eneid	520

The woman characters of Homer and Virgil	527

PostHomeric change in the idea of the Poets office	533

Comparison of the Trojan War with the Crusades	535

Intrusion of incongruous elements	542

Obtrusiveness of the amatory element	548

Tassos greatness except as compared with Homer	554

His boastfulness his only moral fault	563

Inequality of his character as a whole	571

Homers epithets and simile for Helen	575

vi Il xxiv Od iv	581

His place in the War	587

General obliteration of the finer distinctions	593

Mutilation of the Ulysses of Homer	601

New relative position of Trojans and Greeks	607

Racines Iphigenie	613

Title	Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age: Prolegomena. Achaeis or, The Ethnology of the Greek races Volume 1 of Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, William Ewart Gladstone
Author	William Ewart Gladstone
Publisher	Oxford University Press, 1858
Original from	Oxford University
Digitized	Oct 15, 2008

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