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

William Ewart Gladstone

Oxford University Press, 1858 - Civilization, Homeric

Contents

• Their peculiar features Publicity and Persuasion: 11
• Extended signs in the Odyssey: 17
• The family of Priam 21: 21
• Disorganization caused by the: 23
• The first instance of a bad King: 31
• Of Patroclus and Eurypylus: 33
• Custom of resignation in old: 41
• Ulysses as artificer and husbandman: 47
• The Homeric King 1 as Priest: 57
• His revenues from four sources in: 65
• The relation of sovereign and subject a free: 75
• The precious metals not a measure of value: 81
• Relative scarcity of certain metals: 87
• XV: 91
• It subsisted in peace and in: 99
• Achilles the paramount Orator: 105
• The power of repartee: 111
• Opposition in the Agoré by the chiefs: 119
• Grotes judgment on the case of Thersites: 126
• Appeal of Telemachus to the Ithacan Assembly: 137
• Imperfect organization of Heroic Polities: 143
• THE TROJANS COMPARED AND CONTRASTED: 145
• 442: 147
• Include nearly all the greater deities: 151
• Worship of Scamander: 157
• Essential character of Trojan Riverworship: 163
• Redundance of life in the Greek system: 169
• As to endowments in land or reuévea: 175
• Priesthood in Greece: 187
• Homers account of the abduction of Helen 3: 197
• The Trojan estimate of Paris: 205
• Trojan ideas and usages of Marriage 2 ID: 211
• Paris most probably was his eldest son: 221
• the Baoideus: 232
• The greater weight of oratory in Greece: 239
• Difference in the pursuits of highborn youth: 246
• The two Spheres of Inner and Outer 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
• Particulars of evidence on speed: 281
• Evidence from Il xiii: 287
• Opensea passage to the Oceanmouth: 295
• Argument from the IIlayktai: 302
• Argument from the flight of Mercury: 309
• Genuineness of the passage questionable: 317
• Homers indications of geographical misgivings: 331
• Points of contact with Oceanus: 337
• EXCURSUS II: 349
• AOIDOS: 366
• Offer related in the Ninth Book and its rejection: 373
• Skilful adjustment of conflicting aims: 379
• But it pervades the poem: 387
• Retributive justice in the two poems: 393
• human animal and inanimate: 397
• His treatment of the Beauty of Paris: 403
• SECT III: 425
• Greek estimate of the discovery of Number: 431
• The numerals expressive of value 43: 439
• Case of the Trojan bivouac: 445
• Meaning of the yeven of Homer: 455
• Modern perceptions of colour usually definite: 467
• 320: 468
• Aidwv and its cognates also åpyòs ałodos: 477
• Especially in the Greek Catalogue 440: 478
• Causes of this peculiar treatment of colour: 489
• Greek philosophy of colour: 493
• 340: 495
• Xahkòs to be understood as hardened copper: 499
• Catalogue in the Iliad and in the Æneid: 505
• His false position as to religion liberty and nationality: 512
• In minor matters e g Simois and Scamander: 520
• And of the Homeric Mythology and Ethics: 527
• Character of the Bard not found in Virgil: 534
• Rinaldo and Achilles: 535
• Mr Hallams judgment on the Jerusalem: 543
• Her resemblances and inferiority to Dido: 549
• Some principal Homeric Characters in Troy: 555
• His boastfulness his only moral fault: 565
• Brightness of his character as to the affections: 573
• Homers epithets and simile for Helen: 575
• vi Il xxiv Od iv: 581
• His place in the: 587
• General obliteration of the finer distinctions: 593
• Of Isocrates and of Virgil: 601
• Homeric characters in Seneca: 607

Bibliographic information

• 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