STUDIES ON HOMER

AND

THE HOMERIC AGE.

I. PROLEGOMENA.

II. ACHEIS:

OR,

THE ETHNOLOGY OF THE GREEK RACES.

BY THE

RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, D.C.L.

M. P. FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

Plenius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore.-HORACE.

OXFORD:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

M.DCCC.LVIII.

[The right of Translation is reserved.]

High organization of the Poems.

The presumption is that the Poet had Historic aims

Positive signs of them

Pursued even at some cost of Poetical beauty

21

22

23

26

Minuter indications

28

General tone..

28

Hypothesis of reproduction inadmissible

30

What is chiefly meant by his Historic aims

35

SECT. IV.

On the probable Date of Homer.

The main question: is he an original witness

The probable Trustworthiness of the Text of Homer.

The received text to be adopted as a basis

Failure of other methods.

State of the Manuscripts . .

Complaints of interpolation

Testimonies concerning the early use of the Poems

Preservative power of the Recitations or matches

Pseudo-Homeric poems...

Argument from the Cyclic poems.

The Alexandrian period.....

Amount and quality of guarantees.

Improbability of wilful falsification

Internal evidence of soundness in detail

SECT. VI.

Place and Authority of Homer in Historical Inquiry.

Homer paramount as a literary authority

He has suffered through credulity.

And through incredulity.

Proposed method of treatment

Instances of contrary method, (1) Hellen and his family

Authority of Hesiod

Instance (2), personality of Helen.

Conclusion

II. ACHEIS.

ETHNOLOGY OF THE GREEK RACES.

SECT. I.

Scope of the Inquiry.

Preliminary objection of Mr. Grote stated.....

Synopsis of national and tribal names to be examined......

SECT. II.

On the Pelasgians, and cognate races.

Review of the Homeric evidence as to the Athenians..

137

Their relations with Minerva.....

140

Post-Homeric evidence of the Pelasgianism of Attica..

145