Her place in Olympus 215 Her mythological origin 215 The Proserpine or Persephone of Homer 217 Her marked and substantive character 218 Her connection with the East 220 Her place in Olympus doubtful 223 Her associations Hellenic and not Pelasgian 224 The Mars of Homer 225 His limited worship and attributes 226 Mars as yet scarcely Greek 229 The Mercury of Homer 231 Preeminently the god of increase 233 Mercury Hellenic as well as Phœnician 235 But apparently recent in Greece 237 His Olympian function distinct from that of Iris 238 The poems consistent with one another in this point 241 The Venus of Homer 243 Venus as yet scarcely Greek 244 Advance of her worship from the East 247 Her Olympian rank and character 249 Her extremely limited powers 249 Apparently unable to confer beauty 251 Homer never by intention makes her attractive 252 The Vulcan of Homer 254 His Phœnician and Eastern extraction 255 His marriage with Venus 257 Vulcan in and out of his art 259 The Ἠέλιος of Homer 260 In the Iliad 261 In the Odyssey 262 Is of the Olympian court 263 His incorporation with Apollo 264 The Dionysus or Bacchus of Homer 266 His worship recent 266 Apparently of Phœnician origin 267 He is of the lowest inventive type 269 SECT. IV. _The Composition of the Olympian Court; and the classification of the whole supernatural order in Homer._ Principal cases of exclusion from Olympus 271 Case of Oceanus 273 Together with that of Kronos and Rhea 274 The _Dî majores_ of the later tradition 275 Number of the Olympian gods in Homer 275 What deities are of that rank 277 The Hebe and the Paieon of Homer 278