The correct analogy to this Act is the authorisation of a translation of the Bible in England. No historian attributes that feat to any prince but gentle King Jamie: none says that it was due to Henry VIII., Edward VI., or Elizabeth. The historian cannot assume that when Diogenes Laertius attributes the law on recitations to Solon, and the _Hipparchus_ attributes it to the son of Pisistratus, both authorities mean only that a whole educational movement occurred in the sixth century. The existence of primary education in the Athens of the seventh and sixth centuries is proved by the multitude of _inscribed_ vases with paintings of Homeric, Cyclic, and Attic legends; but Diogenes and the _Hipparchus_ are speaking variously about a single legislative enactment. Mr. Verrall next supposes that the "Homer" then recited and taught at Athens was probably the whole "Cycle" of Cyclic poems.[19] This question he must settle with Mr. Murray, who, we have seen, says that the poetry selected for recitation at the Panathenaea was none but the still fluid lays of which, as I understand, our two epics are the final result; while the Cyclic poems were rejected. [1] _Prolegomena_, 2nd edition, 1859, p. 85. [2] See _Homer and his Age_, pp. 44-50. [3] _De Oratore_, iii. 34. [4] _Leocr_. p. 209. [5] _Panegyr_. c. 42. [6] Diog. Laert. _Solon_, i. 57. [7] See Monro, _Odyssey_, vol. ii. pp. 393. 397. [8] _Herodotus_, v. 67. [9] _Iliad_, vol. i. p. 27 [10] _Quarterly Review_, July 1908, p. 76. [11] _Ibid._ p. 53. [12] _Quarterly Review_, July 1908, p. 54. [13] _Quarterly Review_, July 1908, p. 55. [14] _Ibid_. p. 60. [15] _Hipparch_, p. 228 B. [16] Thucydides, vi. 57-59; Monro, _Odyssey_, vol. ii. p. 393. [17] _Quarterly Review_, p. 58. [18] _Ibid_. p. 58. [19] _Quarterly Review_, p. 60. APPENDIX D THE LOST EPICS AND THE HOMERIC EPICS (_WIEDERHOLUNGEN_) In Chapter XVIII., on Homer and the "Cyclic" Poems, I fear that I have not succeeded in understanding Mr. Murray's view of the subject. The fault of misapprehension is not perhaps entirely without excuse. Generally speaking, I give the erroneous impression that Mr. Murray thinks the _Iliad later_ than what are usually called the "Cyclic" poems on the themes connected with Troy. He certainly says that passages in the Iliad "seem to be derived from the Cypria, the Little Iliad, and the Sack of Ilion, the so-called Aethiopis...."[1]