Bannockburn, battle of, cited, 57. Bellerophon, 17, 18, 161, 167, 168-9, 171, 173, 176. _Beowulf_, cited, 37, 105-6, 163, 203, 253, 267. Bérard, M., on the use of iron in early days, 98; on the topography of the Catalogue, 257-8. Bethe, Dr. Erich, his attempt to trace "tribal history," 183-5. Bird Myths, 157. _Bitter Withy, The_, Ballad of, 121. Blind Harry, his _Wallace_, cited, 203, 290. Blood-price, the, 29. Bounos, 174, 175. Brauronia, the, 117. Bride-price, custom of, 38-40. Briseis, Wrath of Achilles over, 195. 235, 242, 246-7; r., 36, Britain, method of war in early, 48. Bronze Age, the 3-4, 5, 107; the overlap, 96-104. _Brus_, the, 203. Brynhild, 34. Burial, methods of, in Minoan Age, 3; in Homeric Age, 4, 108-12; in Dipylon Age, 5; cremation recorded throughout the _Iliad_, 105-6; Aegean methods, 106-7; Jewish, 107-8; in Attic art, 147. Calchas, prophecy of, 208-9; timidity, of, 210, 279. Calydonian Boar, Hunt of, 163, 166. Carians, the, 12, _13_, 17; civilisation and intermarriages of, 143-4. Cassandra, 43. Castor, un-Homeric legends of, 207-8, 215. Catalogue of the Ships, 14-5, 16, 218-9, 257-9, 289. Cauer, Herr, cited on uses of bronze and iron, 97, 98. Cerberus, 136. _Chansons de Geste_, cited, 10, 13, 21, 24, 26, 163, 182, 253, 255, 261; _Chanson de Roland_, 36, 203, 253, 254, 291; _Chancun de Willame, La_, 80, 255. Chariots, uses of, in Homeric war, 51, 52, 54-6, 58, 59, 69-70, 80. Charlemagne, romances of, 10, 12, 24, 26, 164, 166, 182. Chaucer, 35, 36. Cheiron the Centaur, 205. Chimaera, the, 169, 267. Chitons, tearing of, 47; controversy over period and style of 60-5; worn by women, 90, 91. _See also under_ Costume. Chlaina. _See_ Costume. Chryseis, 129, 210, 211. Chryses, 129, 130. Cicero, cited on the connection between Pisistratus and the Homeric poems, 282. Circe, story of her birth, 177; home of, variously located, 178-9; r., 42, 182. Cleisthenes, 126. Clemens Alexandrinus, 173. Clytaemnestra, 30; frailty of, 35, 123; reputed foster-mother of Iphigeneia, 210. Cnossos, palace of, 12, 16, 31, 101, 148. Codrids, the, 23. Colophon, horsemen of, 56. Corinth, legendary conncction of, with Argo, 173-6. Corinthus, 174, 175. Costume, "Late Minoan," 2; Homeric, 4; Third and Fourth Ages, 5; men's, 60-5, 68, 75; women's, 61, 74, 81-95. Cremation. _See under_ Burial. Crete, Minoan art in, 2, 20; Achaean settlement in, 12; the "true Cretans," 13; a dependency of Greek mainland, 15, 16; prehistoric, 272-3. Cyclic Poems, the, different in character and style from Homeric poems, 6-9, 46, 111, 133, 143, 150, 163, 168, 169-70, 187, 218-21, 263, 268;
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