LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       DETAILED CONTENTS

       LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (not available in this file)

       ALGONQUINS UNDER SHIELD

       THE VASE OF ARISTONOTHOS

       DAGGER WITH LION-HUNTERS

       RINGS: SWORDS AND SHIELDS

       FRAGMENTS OF WARRIOR VASE

       FRAGMENT OF SIEGE VASE

       ALGONQUIN CORSLET

       GOLD CORSLET

       CHAPTER I

       THE HOMERIC AGE

       CHAPTER II

       HYPOTHESES AS TO THE GROWTH OF THE EPICS

       CHAPTER III

       HYPOTHESES OF EPIC COMPOSITION

       THE LEGEND OF THE MAKING OF THE "ILIAD" UNDER PISISTRATOS

       CHAPTER IV

       LOOSE FEUDALISM: THE OVER-LORD IN "ILIAD," BOOKS I. AND II.

       CHAPTER V

       AGAMEMNON IN THE LATER "ILIAD"

       CHAPTER VI

       ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE "ILIAD". BURIAL AND CREMATION

       CHAPTER VII

       HOMERIC ARMOUR

       CHAPTER VIII

       THE BREASTPLATE

       CHAPTER IX

       BRONZE AND IRON

       CHAPTER X

       THE HOMERIC HOUSE

       CHAPTER XI

       NOTES OF CHANGE IN THE "ODYSSEY"

       CHAPTER XII

       LINGUISTIC PROOFS OF VARIOUS DATES

       CHAPTER XIII

       THE "DOLONEIA"

       "ILIAD," BOOK X.

       CHAPTER XIV

       THE INTERPOLATIONS OF NESTOR

       CHAPTER XV

       THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EARLY EPICS

       CHAPTER XVI

       HOMER AND THE FRENCH MEDIAEVAL EPICS

       CHAPTER XVII

       CONCLUSION

PREFACE

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      In Homer and the Epic, ten or twelve years ago, I examined the literary objections to Homeric unity. These objections are chiefly based on alleged discrepancies in the narrative, of which no one poet, it is supposed, could have been guilty. The critics repose, I venture to think, mainly on a fallacy. We may style it the fallacy of "the analytical reader." The poet is expected to satisfy a minutely critical reader, a personage whom he could not foresee, and whom he did not address. Nor are "contradictory instances" examined—that is, as Blass has recently reminded his countrymen, Homer is put to a test which Goethe could not endure. No long fictitious narrative can satisfy "the analytical reader."

      The fallacy is that of disregarding the Homeric poet's audience. He did not sing for Aristotle or

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