IV. AOIDOS. SECT. I. _On the Plot of the Iliad._ The Theory of Grote on the structure of the poem 366 Offer related in the Ninth Book and its rejection 369 Restitution and gifts not the object of Achilles 371 The offer was radically defective 373 Apology needed in particular 375 Consistency maintained in and after Il. ix 377 Skilful adjustment of conflicting aims 379 Glory given to Achilles 380 Glory given to Greece 380 Trojan inferiority mainly in the Chiefs 382 But it pervades the poem 384 In the Chiefs it is glaring 385 Conflicting exigencies of the plan 387 Greeks superior even without Achilles 388 Harmony in relative prominence of the Chiefs 389 Retributive justice in the two poems 392 The sufferings of Achilles 394 Double conquest over his will 395 SECT. II. _The Sense of Beauty in Homer: human, animal, and inanimate._ His sense of Beauty alike pure and strong 397 Degeneracy of the popular idea had begun 398 Illustrated by the series of Dardanid traditions, (1) Ganymede 398 (2) Tithonus, (3) Anchises 400 (4) Paris and Venus 401 Homer’s sense of Beauty in the human form 402 His treatment of the Beauty of Paris 402 Beauty among the Greek chieftains 404 Ascribed also to the nation 405 Beauty of Nireus 406 Of Nastes and of Euphorbus 407 Beauty placed among the prime gifts of man 408 Homer’s sense of Beauty in animals 409 Especially in horses 410 As to their movements 411 As to their form and colour 413 Homer’s sense of Beauty in inanimate nature 416 The instance of Ithaca 417 Germ of feeling for the picturesque in Homer 419 Close relation of Order and Beauty 420 Causes adverse to the development of the germ 421