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
• Disorganization caused by the: 23
• The first instance of a bad King: 31
• The nine Greek Bagines of the Iliad: 35
• Achilles in particular: 48
• Burdens upon them: 61
• The Oñtes or hired servants: 74
• Five distinctive notes of Baoines in the Iliad: 86
• Its military composition: 89
• The Battle and the Ambuscade: 92
• Opposition in the Bourn: 99
• Achilles the paramount Orator: 105
• The faculty of debate in Homer III: 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
• 2: 147
• Worship of Vulcan in Troas: 151
• Different view of Rivers in Troas: 159
• 21: 162
• Poverty of Mythology among the Trojans: 165
• As to endowments in land or repévea: 172
• Priesthood in Greece: 179
• 22: 184
• Comparative observance of sacrifice: 187
• Homers account of the abduction of Helen: 193
• Its relation to prevailing views of Marriage: 201
• The Trojans more sensual and false: 207
• The family of Priam: 211
• Trojan Polity less highly organized: 217
• Position of Priam and his dynasty in Troas: 223
• the Baoideus: 232
• The greater weight of oratory in Greece: 239
• Difference in the pursuits of highborn youth: 245
• Principal heads of the inquiry: 251
• 24: 256
• The intermediate or doubtful zone: 257
• Manifest dislocations of actual nature: 263
• Of Zephyr and Boreas: 270
• Homeric distances and rates of speed: 275
• 25: 286
• Opensea passage to the Oceanmouth: 289
• Argument from the Πλαγκται: 302
• Genuineness of the passage questionable: 317
• 27: 322
• Tours of Menelaus and Ulysses compared: 331
• Collateral testimony to the extraction of Minos: 347
• Illustrated from Il xiji: 353
• i 597 vii 238 xii 239 249: 359
• Another sense prevailed in later Greek: 365
• Restitution and gifts not the object of Achilles: 371
• Consistency maintained in and after Il ix: 377
• But it pervades the poem: 384
• Retributive justice in the two poems: 393
• 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
• Applications of ξανθός ερυθρός πορφύρεος 4бо: 462
• The aidadóels of Homer: 468
• Γλαυκός γλαυκώπις γλαυκιόων: 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
• 31: 494
• Miltons place among Epic poets 500: 501
• Character of Æneas in the Iliad: 507
• Homer is misapprehended through Virgil: 513
• Action of the Twelfth Æneid: 520
• The woman characters of Homer and Virgil: 527
• PostHomeric change in the idea of the Poéts 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: 561
• Brightness of his character as to the affections: 567
• Homers intention with respect to it: 573
• Homers epithets and simile for Helen: 575
• Picture of Helen in II ïi: 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 Iphigénie: 613

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