Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3: I. Prolegomena II. Achæis; or, the Ethnology of the Greek RacesGladstone, W. E. (William Ewart)
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Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3: I. Prolegomena II. Achæis; or, the Ethnology of the Greek Races
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart)
Civilization, Homeric; Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism; Homer
Minos in Homer 166
His origin 167
His place in the nether world 168
The power of Crete 169
Two of the five races apparently Pelasgian 170
The tradition of Deucalion 172
The extent of the Minoan Empire 175
Evidence of Post-Homeric tradition 176
Circumstantial evidence 178
The Lycians 181
Their points of connection with Greece 183
Elements of the population 185
Cyprus 188
Inhabitants probably Pelasgian 190
No other name competes with the Pelasgian as designating
the first inhabitants of Greece 193
The Pelasgians were the base or _substratum_ of the
Greek nation 194
Post-Homeric testimony respecting them 195
K. O. Müller’s Summary 200
The Pelasgian language 203
The Pelasgian route into Greece 205
Probably twofold 206
Route of the Helli 208
Peloponnesus the old centre of power 209
Derivation of the Pelasgian name 211
SECT. IV.
_On the Phœnicians and the Outer Geography of
the Odyssey._
Tokens of the Phœnicians in Greece 216
Limits of Homer’s Inner or Greek Geography 217
And Greek Navigation 219
His Outer Geography Phœnician 221
The traditions connected therewith also Phœnician 223
Minos the Ὀλοόφρων 225
Commercial aptitude of the modern Greeks 227
The Homeric Mouth of Ocean 228
The two Geographical reports are blended into one 228
The Siceli and Sicania 229
Their site is probably on the Bruttian Coast 231
The Epirus of Homer 234
The Thesprotians in Homer 235
The Cadmeans in Homer 239
Period from which they date 240
Conclusions respecting them 244
SECT. V.
_On the Catalogue._
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