Odysseus, Egypt known to, 18, 28; skilled in arts of peace, 30; his house and family life, 30-1, 41-2, 43; and the bow of Eurytus, 49, 135; in battle, 52; his tunic, 62; fibula, 64-5; shield of, 70; his use of bronze and iron, 98; story of the removal of the weapons and the wooers, 100-4; in Hades, 123; song for the staunching of his blood, 133; and purification of Achilles, 133, 180; Ionian hostility to, 160, 202, 216; relations of, with Circe, 178; Homeric tradition of, contrasted with others, 183-93, 195, 208, 211, 217, 250-51; feud of, with kin of the wooers, 252; seeks for arrow-poison, 278; r., 15, 17, 22, 25, 32, 35, 112, 129, 130, 181. _Odyssey_, manner of, Achaean, 12, 221; account of Crete in, 13, 22; mention of Egypt and Phoenicians in, 18-9; the Over Lord, 25; treatment of women in, 35, 36-7; family life in, 41-2; mention of iron weapons in, 100-1, 102-3; funeral rites, 112; Demeter mentioned in, 118; ethical aspect of the gods in, 123-5, 127; Ionian traits not present in, 150; Minos in, 156; geographical knowledge not extensive in, 179, 198; element of _Märchen_ in, 187; character of Odysseus, 188-9; legend of Castor and Polydeuces, 208; more critically dissected in Germany than in England, 224; doubtful passages in, 251-2; who were the purgers?, 263; mention of poisoned arrows in, 278. Oedipus, curses his sons, 31; burial of, 159; r., 139. Oenomaus, tomb of, 109. Oiax, avenges Palamedes, 192-3. Orestes, bones of, carried to Sparta, 126; purification of, 135; takes refuge in Athens, 139. "Overlap," ages of, 96, 97, 102. Over Lord, the Homeric, 23-7.