The Woman-characters of Tasso 544 The Armida of Tasso 545 Her resemblances and inferiority to Dido 546 Her passion ill-sustained 546 Obtrusiveness of the amatory element 548 The Affront of Gernando 549 Difference in modes of describing personages 551 Battles and Similes of Tasso 552 Inferiority of the Return in the _Gerusalemme_ 553 Tasso’s greatness except as compared with Homer 554 SECT. VI. _Some principal Homeric Characters in Troy. Hector: Helen: Paris._ Homer’s character-drawing power 555 Corruption of the later tradition 556 Why specially destructive in his case 557 Mure’s treatment of the Homeric characters 558 The character of Hector set off with generalities 558 It became the basis for that of Orlando 559 The martial heroism of Hector second-rate 559 His boastfulness his only moral fault 561 Hectoring and Rodomontading 562 Hector’s sense of the guilt and shame of Paris 563 His responsibilities beyond his strength 565 Brightness of his character as to the affections 567 His piety, gentleness, and equity 568 Inequality of his character as a whole 569 Apparent reason for it 569 Opposite views of the character of Helen 571 Homer’s intention with respect to it 572 Two adverse mentions of her only 574 Homer’s epithets and simile for Helen 575 The case of Bathsheba 576 As to the free agency of Helen 577 Picture of Helen in Il. iii. 572 In Il. vi., Il. xxiv., Od. iv. 581 The marriage with Deiphobus 583 General estimate of the Homeric Helen 584 The character of Paris 585 His apathy, levity, and selfishness 586 His place in the War 587 Relation of his intellect to his morality 588