Political ideas of later Greece Page 1 Their strong development in Heroic Greece 2 Germ of the Law of Nations 4 Grote’s account of the Heroic Polities 5 Their peculiar features, Publicity and Persuasion 6 Functions of the king in the Heroic Polities 8 Nature of the Pelopid Empire 9 Degrees in Kingship and in Lordship 10 Four forms of Sovereignty 12 First tokens of change in the Heroic Polities 12 Shown by analysis of the Catalogue 14 Extended signs in the Odyssey 17 Altered sense of Βασιλεὺς or King 18 New name of Queen 20 Disorganization caused by the War 21 Arrival of a new race at manhood 22 Increased weight of the nobles 24 Altered idea of the kingly office 25 The first instance of a bad King 27 Further change in the time of Hesiod 28 Veneration long adhering to the name 31 Five distinctive notes of Βασιλῆες in the Iliad 32 The nine Greek Βασιλῆες of the Iliad 35 The case of Meges 36 Of Phœnix 37 Of Patroclus and Eurypylus 38 Conditions of Kingship in the Iliad 39 The personal beauty of the Kings 40 Custom of resignation in old age 40 Force of the term αἴζηος 41 Gymnastic superiority of the Kings 44 Their pursuit of Music and Song 45 Ulysses as artificer and husbandman 46 The Kings as Gentlemen 47 Achilles in particular 48 Tenderness and tears of the Greek chiefs 49 Right of hereditary succession 50 Right of primogeniture 52 The Homeric King (1) as Priest 55 (2) as Judge 56 (3) as General 57