Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age

Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age are a comprehensive 3-volume work that features the history of the ancient Greek literature, focusing on the Homeric Question – concerning by whom, when, where and under what circumstances the Iliad and Odyssey, its foundational works, were composed.

Contents:

Prolegomena:

On the State of the Homeric Question

The Place of Homer in Classical Education

On the Historic Aims of Homer

On the Probable Date of Homer

The Probable Trustworthiness of the Text of Homer

Place and Authority of Homer in Historical Inquiry

Achæis - Ethnology of the Greek Races:

Scope of the Inquiry

On the Pelasgians, and Cognate Races

The Pelasgians: and Certain States Naturalized or Akin to Greece

On the Phœnicians and the Outer Geography of the Odyssey

On the Catalogue

On the Hellenes of Homer

On the Respective Contributions of the Pelasgian and Hellenic Factors to the Compound of the Greek Nation

On the Three Greater Homeric Appellatives

On the Homeric Title of Ἄναξ Ἀνδρῶν

On the Connection of the Hellenes and Achæans With the East

Olympus or the Religion of the Homeric Age:

On the Mixed Character of the Supernatural System, or Theo-mythology of Homer

The Traditive Element of the Homeric Theo-mythology

The Inventive Element of the Homeric Theo-mythology

The Composition of the Olympian Court; and the Classification of the Whole Supernatural Order in Homer

The Olympian Community and Its Members Considered in Themselves

The Olympian Community and Its Members Considered in Their Influence on Human Society and Conduct

On the Traces of an Origin Abroad for the Olympian Religion

The Morals of the Homeric Age

Woman in the Heroic Age

The Office of the Homeric Poems in Relation to That of the Early Books of Holy Scripture

Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age

Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared

Thalassa: The Outer Geography

Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer