Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3: I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer.Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart)
Philosophy
Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3: I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer.
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart)
Civilization, Homeric; Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism; Homer
From his homeward passage 308
Site of Scylla relatively to the Dardanelles 309
Why Ææa cannot lie North-westward 311
Construction of Od. xii. 3, 4 312
Construction of Od. v. 276, 7 315
Genuineness of the passage questionable 316
Its real meaning 317
Homer’s indications of geographical misgivings 318
Stages of the tour of Ulysses to Ææa (i-vi.) 320
Ææa and the Euxine (vi-viii.) 325
Remaining stages (viii-xi.) 327
Directions and distances from Ææa onwards 329
Tours of Menelaus and Ulysses compared 331
The earth of Homer probably oval 334
Points of contact with Oceanus 337
The Caspian and Persian Gulf belong to Oceanus 338
Contraction and compression of the Homeric East 340
Outline of Homer’s terrestrial system 342
Map of Earth according to Homer 343
EXCURSUS I.
_Parentage and Extraction of Minos._
On the genuineness of Il. xiv. 317-27 344
On the sense of the line Il. xiv. 321 346
Collateral testimony to the extraction of Minos 347
EXCURSUS II.
_On the line Odyss. v. 277._
Points of the question stated 349
Senses of δεξιὸς and ἀριστερὸς 350
Illustrated from Il. xiii 352
On the force of the Homeric ἐπὶ 354
Force of ἐπὶ with ἀριστερὰ 356
Illustrated from Il. ii. 353. Od. xxi. 141 358
From Il. i. 597. vii. 238. xii. 239, 249 359
From Il. xxiii. 335-7 360
From Il. ii. 526 362
Application to Od. v. 277 364
Another sense prevailed in later Greek 365
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