reputed connection of, with Homeric poems, 281-3, 284, 286. Plato, cited on purification by blood, 134; cited on the Homeric view of Minos, 155; his reference to Palamedes, and Aias, 192, 194. Polydamus, advice of, to Trojans in battle, 52-3. Polydeuces, un-Homeric legends of, 207-8, 215. Polygnotus, his decoration of the Lesche, 66, 274. Polynices, 31; burial of, 158-9. ? Polyxena, traditions of, 195-6, 216-7. Poseidon, r., 18, 34, 162; rallies the Achaeans, 52, 53, 59; wreaks his grudge on Odysseus, 124; and Periclymenus, 136, 168; patron of Ionian league of cities, 144; doings of, perplexing, 251. Priam, attitude of, towards Helen, 35; pays no bride-price, 38; excusable petulance of, 43; attitude of, towards Aeneas, 216, 251; Achilles' reception of, 239, 249; r., 131, 192. Proclus, Epitome of, cited, 204, 205, 214. Protesilaus, 54, 137, 211. Purification by swine's blood unknown to Homer but familiar to Ionians, 29, 30, 133-4, 135-6, 198, 212-3; no Northern example of, 266, 267. Quintus Smyrnaeus, 215, 276. Reichel Dr., his criticism of Homeric armour cited, 65, 68-70, 72-3, 76, 80. Rhadamanthus, 16, 156. Ridgeway, William, his theory of Homer, 102, 136; his theory of prehistoric language in Greece, 151, 152-3. _Roncevaux_, the, 291. _Ruined City_ (Anglo-Saxon poem), 33. Sacrifice, human, 210-1, 216-8, 272, 279. Sacrificial rites, Homeric treatment of, 128-30, 131. "Saga," growth of, 166-7. Saint Aignan, patron of Orleans, 126. Sainte-Beuve, cited on the Odyssey, 252. Sarpedon, 13, 17. Saul, King, treatment of his corpse, 108. "Schiltrom," formed by Achaeans in battle, 53; cavalry powerless against, 55. Scholiast, the, cited, 204-5, 213, 241, 244. Scotland, method of war in, in Roman times, 48; Highland clans in action, 52; fabulous genealogy of kings, 138-9. Scott, Sir Walter, works of, r., 41-2, 162, 293-4. Semele, mother of Dionysus, 118-9. Shakespeare, _Troilus and Cressida_, 41, 194, 274; _Macbeth_, 233, 234; his method of construction compared with Homer's, 254, 255; _King Lear_, 277. Shewan, Mr., cited on Nestor and Thrasymedes, 252. Sicyon, 174. Sidney, Sir Philip, his Arcadia cited, 254, 277. Sinon, 214, 276. Sisyphus, 17, 123. Solon, 90; connection of, with the Athenian Recension of Homer, 270, 281, 283, 286, 287. Sophocles, r., 37; on Hector, 46; his _Oedipous_, 159; belittles Odysseus, 188, 189. Spata, relics found in tombs of, 145-6. Stasinus, 200, 205. Stawell, Miss F. Melian, her "_Homer and the Iliad_" cited, 72, 77, 224-6, 234, 236, 244. Stesichorus, 210, 213, 217. Stichios, 138, 184. Studniczka F. K., cited, 83, 87, 183.