Opposition by Thersites 120 Grote’s judgment on the case of Thersites 123 How that case bears witness to the popular principle 126 As does the Agorè on the Shield 126 Mode of addressing the Assembly 129 Its decisions in the Seventh and Ninth Iliads 129 Division in the Drunken Assembly 130 Appeal of Telemachus to the Ithacan Assembly 132 Phæacian Assembly of the Eighth Odyssey 134 Ithacan Assembly of the Twenty-fourth 136 Councils or Assemblies of Olympus 137 Judicial functions of the Assembly 139 Assembly the central point of the Polity 140 The common soul or Τὶς in Homer 141 Imperfect organization of Heroic Polities 143 II. ILIOS. THE TROJANS COMPARED AND CONTRASTED WITH THE GREEKS. Relationship of Troy and Greece twofold 145 Greek names of deities found also in Troas 147 Include nearly all the greater deities 150 Worship of Vulcan in Troas 151 Worship of Juno and Gaia in Troas 153 Worship of Mercury in Troas 154 Worship of Scamander 155 Different view of Rivers in Troas 158 Essential character of Trojan River-worship 160 Trojan impersonations from Nature rare 162 Poverty of Mythology among the Trojans 165 Their jejune doctrine of a Future State 166 Redundance of life in the Greek system 168 Worship from hills 169 The nations compared as to external development of religion.-- 1. Temples 170 2. As to endowments in land, or τεμένεα 172 3. As to Groves’ ἄλσεα 173 4. As to Statues of the Gods 174 5. As to Seers or Diviners 177 6. As to the Priesthood: Priesthood in Greece 179 Priesthood in later Greece 183 Priesthood among the Trojans 184 Comparative observance of sacrifice 187 The Trojans more given to religious observances 189