"I hold that the original nucleus of the Iliad was due to a single Achaean poet, living in Thessaly before the immigration which partly displaced the primitive Hellenes there. This primary Iliad may have been as old as the eleventh century B. C. It was afterwards brought by Achaean emigrants to Ionia, and there enlarged by successive Ionian poets. The original nucleus of the Odyssey was also composed, probably, in Greece proper, before the Dorian conquest of the Peloponnesus; was carried to Ionia by emigrants whom the conquerors drove out; and was there expanded into an epic which blends the local traits of its origin with the spirit of Ionian adventure and Ionian society." _R. C. Jebb, The growth and influence of Classical Greek Poetry, page 14._ _R. C. Jebb, Homer: An Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey._ "We accept the Iliad as one epic by one hand. The inconsistencies which are the basis of the opposite theory seem to us reconcileable in many places, in others greatly exaggerated. … To us the hypothesis of a crowd of great harmonious poets, working for centuries at the Iliad, and sinking their own fame and identity in Homer's, appears more difficult of belief than the opinion that one great poet may make occasional slips and blunders." As for the Odyssey, "we have … to deal with critics who do not recognise the unity, the marshalling of incidents towards a given end. We have to do with critics who find, in place of unity, patchwork and compilation, and evident traces of diverse dates, and diverse places of composition. Thus argument is inefficient, demonstration is impossible, and the final judge must be the opinion of the most trustworthy literary critics and of literary tradition. These are unanimous, as against the 'microscope-men,' in favor of the unity of the Odyssey." _A. Lang, Homer and the Epic, chapters 7 and 13._ HOMERITES, The. See ABYSSINIA: 6TH TO 16TH CENTURIES. HOMESTEAD ACT, The. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1862 (MAY). HOMILDON HILL, Battle of. A victory for the English, under "Hotspur," over a raiding army of the Scots, A. D. 1402. It was won almost entirely by the English cross-bow. By some historians it is called the Battle of Humbledon. See SCOTLAND: A. D. 1400-1436. HOMOOUSION AND HOMOIOUSION. SEE ARIANISM. HOMS, Battle of (1832). See TURKS: A. D. 1831-1840. HONDSCHOTTEN, Battle of (1793). See FRANCE: A. D. 1793 (JULY-DECEMBER). ----------HONDURAS: Start-------- HONDURAS: Aboriginal inhabitants. Ruins of Ancient Civilization. See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: MAYAS, and QUICHES. HONDURAS: A. D. 1502. Discovery by Columbus. See AMERICA: A. D. 1498-1505. HONDURAS: A. D. 1524. Conquest by Olid and Cortes. See MEXICO: A. D. 1521-1524. {1662}