[39] Cf. Monro, _Odyssey_, vol. ii. pp. 398-402. He is sceptical, as is Mr. Leaf, _Iliad_, vol. i. pp. xviii, xix. But see Mr. Allen in _Classical Quarterly_, i. 135 ff. [40] _R. G. E_. p. 164. [41] Mr. Leaf writes _(Iliad_, vol. i. p. 86): "The conclusion is that the Catalogue" (of _Iliad_, ii.) "originally formed an introduction to the whole Cycle, and was composed for that part of it which, as worked up into a separate poem, was called the _Kypria_, and related the beginning of the Tale of Troy, and the mustering of the ships at Aulis." I do not quite know what Mr. Leaf means; but the evidence is that the _Cypria_ contained "a _Catalogue of the allies of the Trojans_" (Kinkel, p. 20). Nothing is said of its containing a Catalogue of the Achaeans. Mr. Monro _(Odyssey_, vol. ii. p. 351) justly remarks that the _Trojan_ Catalogue in the _Cypria_ was intended to supplement the short Catalogue of the allies of Troy given in the _Iliad_: "Such an enlarged roll would be the natural fruit of increased acquaintance" (on the part of Greek settlers in Asia) "with the non-Hellenic races of Asia Minor." [42] _R. G. E_. p. 165. [43] _ Anthropology and the Classics_, 1908, p. 67. [44] See Appendix, "Homeric Epics, Lost Epics, and 'Traditional Books.'" CHAPTER XIX THE GREAT DISCREPANCIES The standing argument against the old belief in the unity of authorship of the Epics, has for several generations been based on the discrepancies and inconsistencies which are said to abound in these poems. "The only begetter" of the critical school which lacerates Homer was Wolf; but Wolf's suspicions were not originally roused by inconsistencies which shocked him in the poems. The poems, he said, had _unus color_, "one harmonious colouring." But if that be true, and it is true, how was this harmony preserved in a poem which, as Wolf decided from _a priori_ considerations, cannot be the work of one man or one age? Now the work of many men in many ages inevitably _must_ be a chaos, not a harmony, and so Wolf's followers have devoted their lives to the hunt for discrepancies and inaccuracies fit to support their preconceived opinion.