Homer; an introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Publisher: Kennikat Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Port Washington, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Homer -- Criticism and interpretation; Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Reprint of the 2d printing of 1887.
Table of contents: title: General literary characteristics of the poems. Homeric Poems : their twofold interest -- Pre-Homeric poetry -- Epic poetry -- Aristotle on Homer -- Structure of the Iliad -- Structure of the Odyssey -- Homeric poetry : its general stamp -- Relation to ballad poetry -- Relation to the literary epic -- Dryden and Addison on Homer : The Wolfians -- Homer and Walter Scott -- The Homeric characters -- Their typical value -- Their expression in speech, or in thought -- Divine and human action -- Homeric use of simile -- Why simile is rarer in the Odyssey -- Range of the similes -- Aggregation of similes : how used by Homer -- The twenty-second book of the Iliad -- Concluding remarks -- The Homeric world. The Hellenic type already mature : Unity of the picture -- Homeric geography, 'inner' and 'outer' -- Iliad : Inner geography, outer geography -- The 'Catalogue' : a document apart -- Traces of personal knowledge -- Odyssey : Inner geography, outer geography -- Homeric polity -- King -- Dikè and themis : Council, Agora -- Difference between Iliad and Odyssey as pictures of polity -- Homeric religion -- Fate, Erinyes -- Difference between Iliad and Odyssey as to the supernatural -- Homeric ethics : The family -- Slavery -- Limit to the sphere of themis : Aidos, Nemesis -- The Homeric civilisation -- Archaeological evidence -- Use of stone -- The Homeric house, The court -- The aethusa and prodomus -- The megaron -- Women's apartments : Analogy to later Greek house -- Interior fittings and decoration, etc. -- Social manners -- Homeric dress -- Homeric armour -- Homeric art -- Shield of Achilles, Other works -- Standards of value : writing, craftsmen, merchants -- Life in the similes, scenes on the Shield -- Funeral rites -- The state of the dead -- Homer in antiquity. Influence of the Homeric poems -- Minstrelsy in Homer : Iliad, Odyssey -- Post-Homeric recitation -- Rhapsodes -- Homeridae -- The rhapsode in the fourth century B.C -- Was Homer ever sung ? The rhapsode as commentator -- Homer in education -- Homer's influence on Greek religion -- Greek view of Homer as a historian -- Poems ascribed to Homer in antiquity -- Notices of Homer's life : earliest traces, a shadowy personality -- Allegorizing interpretation -- Rhetorical treatment -- Rationalising criticism -- Alexandrian materials for Homeric criticism : the ancient vulgate -- Zenodotus -- Aristophanes -- Aristarchus -- Characteristics of his work -- Didymus, Aristonicus, Herodian, Nicanor -- The Epitome : Codex Venetus A -- The division into books -- Crates and the Pergamene School -- Demetrius, Eustathius -- Scholia -- Our text of Homer -- The homeric question. The Chorizontes -- The modern Homeric question -- Surmises before Wolf -- Vico. Robert Wood -- Wolf's Prolegomena -- Wolf recognised a personal Homer -- Objections to Wolf 's view of writing -- Summary -- The story about Peisistratus -- 'Nature' and 'art' -- Elasticity of Wolf 's theory, developments of it -- Lachmann -- Hermann -- Reaction : the epopee view, Nitzsch -- Grote's ‘Achilleid’ -- Estimate of Grote's theory -- Geddes -- W. Christ -- Texture of the Odyssey, Kirchhoff -- Analogy of other early epics -- Homeric language -- Traditional epic element -- False archaisms -- Differences between Iliad and Odyssey -- Lost sounds, the digamma -- Inconstant use of the digamma in Homer -- Supposed errors of transliteration -- Fick's theory -- Estimate of it -- The tale of Troy : how far historical -- Site of Homeric Troy -- Origin of the Homeric picture of Troy -- The Epic Cycle -- Analysis of the Trojan Cycle -- Summary -- General survey of results, views which may be rejected -- Deceptive unity of the epic style -- Conservative tendency of recent studies -- The primary poem, special advantages of the subject -- The poem was an ‘Iliad’ from the first -- Enlargement of the primary Iliad : Books 2 to 7 -- Books 12 to 15 -- Books 8 and 9. -- Books 23 and 24 -- Book 10 : the greater interpolations -- Summary : age and origin of the primary Iliad -- Arguments for the European origin : two strata of tradition -- Estimate of this argument -- The argument from Homeric silence -- Inference early fixity of form in the Iliad -- The primary Iliad : perhaps Thessalian, the dialect afterwards lonicised -- Ancient belief in an Asiatic Homer -- The European claim can be reconciled with the Asiatic -- Authorship of the earlier enlargements -- Predominant significance of the first poet -- Origin of the Odyssey -- Ionian development of the poem -- Authorship -- Relations with the Iliad, Age -- Conclusion.