[1] In English the best critical treatises are _Homer and the Cyclic Poems_, by the late Mr. Binning Monro in his _Odyssey_, Books xiii.-xxiv. pp. 340-384, with his "On the Fragment of Proclus's Abstract of the Epic Cycle," _Journal of Hellenic Society_, vol. iv. pp. 305-334. The discussion of the whole topic by Mr. T. W. Allen in _The Classical Quarterly_ (1908) leaves no hint of ancient evidence unexplored, however remote and obscure its lurking place. Mr. Allen specially criticises the ingenious inferences of von Wilamowitz Moellendorff in his _Homerische Untersuchungen_, inferences which appear to be accepted by Mr. Murray in his _Rise of the Greek Epic_, and his lecture, "Anthropology in the Greek Epic Tradition outside of Homer," in _Anthropology and the Classics_, 1908. [2] Kinkel, _Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta_, 1898. [3] _J. H. S._, vol. iv p. 305. [4] _Odyssey_, vol. ii pp. 352-354. [5] Farnell, _Cults of the Greek States_, vol. ii pp. 488-493. Mr. Monro seems to have been unaware of these facts. _Odyssey_, vol. ii p. 354. [6] Odyssey, vol. ii. p. 350. [7] _Companion to the Iliad_, p. 46. [8] _Homerische Untersuchungen_, pp. 374, 375. On Wilamowitz-Moellendorff's opinion that the Cyclics were lost before the time of Pausanias, see Mr. Allen, _Classical Quarterly_, January, April, 1908. The _Iliad, as it stands_, appears to be regarded as later and more artistic than the rest. [9] Aristotle, _Poetics_, ch. xxiv. [10] _R. G. E._ p. 165. [11] _Ibid._ p. 165. [12] _Ibid._ p. 163. [13] The seven Greek verses to this effect are preserved by the Venice Scholiast on _Iliad_, i. 5, 6. The words Διὸς δ'ἐτελείετο βουλή are also in _Iliad_, i. 5, whether the author of the _Cypria_ borrowed them, or whether they were an old epic formula. [14] Schol. Ven., _Iliad_, i, 5, 6. [15] _R. G. E._ pp. 80-88. [16] Pausanias, i. 33. [17] _Bekk. Anecdot_. p. 282. 32. Pausanias, i. 33. 2. [18] Pausanias, vii. 5. 3. See Farnell, _Cults of Greek States_, vol. ii. pp. 487-495. 594. 595. [19] Kinkel, _Ep. Graec. Frag_. p. 25 9. [20] _Iliad_, ii. 326-329. [21] xix. 326, 327. [22] The common tale that Achilles was sent to Scyros to avoid the war, in girl's dress; that he there begat Neoptolemus, and was then unmasked by Odysseus, was in contradiction with _Iliad_, xi. 766-785, where Nestor tells how he summoned Achilles at the house of Peleus, his father. [23] Monro, _Odyssey_, vol. ii. p. 352. [24] Pausanias, ii. 22. [25] Kinkel, p. 29. [26] See "The Story of Palamedes." [27] Welcker, _Das Ep. Kyk._, vol. i. pp. 211, 212. [28] _Iliad_, xx ii. 358-360. [29] _Iliad_, xi. 690. [30] Pausanias, iii. 19. [31] Monro, _Odyssey_, vol. ii. p. 361. [32] Monro, _Odyssey_, vol. ii. p. 370. [33] Pausanias, v. 19. [34] Pausanias, x. 25. [35] _Odyssey_, viii. 492-520. [36] Pausanias, 1. 23. 10. [37] Monro, _Odyssey_, vol. ii. pp. 372, 373. [38] Monro, _Odyssey_, vol. ii. p. 476.