The World of Homer
on Theseus myth, 155, 214;
on Panyassis, 172;
on Thersites, 181;
on character of the Cyclic Poems, 200;
on the Catalogue, _219_, 258;
on the unity of the _Odyssey_, 224;
on the camp wall, 230;
on certain alleged contradictions, 231, 233, 241;
on Thetis, 244;
on Book VIII. of the _Iliad_, 292-3.
Lemnos, adventures of the Argonauts in, 179.
Leonymus, 213.
Lesches, 200.
Locrians, archery of the, 53, 55, 137.
Lom, Ian, 28.
Lucretius, his theory of ghosts, 110.
Lycians, the, intermarriages of Greeks with, 17, 144.
Lycurgus, legends of, 118-9, 231;
worshipped by the Spartans, 126;
connection of, with the Homeric Recitations, 282, 283, 285, 286.
Lynceus, 207, 208.
Mabinogion, the Welsh, 166.
MacAllister, R.A.S., result of his excavations at Gezer, 99.
Mackenzie, Dr., on Homeric armour, 73.
Mahaffy, J. P., on the Attic standard of morality, 188-9.
Marathon, 174; Bull of, 175.
Marriage, adelphic, 276.
Medea, r., 34, 180;
un-Homeric legends of, 165-7, 173-75
not mentioned by Homer, 177;
Eumelian account of, 178.
Meges, reared by Theano, 161.
Melanippus, worship of, 126.
Melanthius, 102; fate of, 278.
Meleager, the "golden-haired," r., 14, 16, 25, 34;
gifts offered to, for his services, 21;
war between, and the Couretes, 28;
family feud of, 43;
Homeric tradition of his fate, 161, 169;
Thersites insulted by, 180.
Melissa, 112.
Memnon, 163; Ionian tradition of, 213.
Menelaus, his home, 31;
chivalrous character of, 37, 46, 248, 250;
affection of Agamemnon for, 43;
aids Odysseus, 52;
arrow-smitten, 76, 77, 278;
Ionian hostility to, 160;
un-Homeric traditions of, 190, 207, 208;
r., 15, 16, 71, 127, 265.
Menestheus, 137, 138.
Milton, John, 14, 253, 255.
Mimnermus, cited on Aia, 178.
Minos, Idomeneus descended from, 14, 16;
blood-sacrifices said to have been abolished by, 113;
Homeric view of, 155-6;
un-Homeric legends of, 167;
his bull, 175;
fate of, obscure, 279; r., 154
Minotaur, the, 15, 156, 175.
Momus, advice of, 204-5.
Monro, D. Binning, cited on Homeric use of iron, 100-2, 104;
on pollution and purification, 133;
on non-reference to Aethra, 155;
on the Cyclic Poems, _197_, 198-9;
on Homer's ignorance of Taurus, 210;
on the Athenian Recitations, 282-4, 285.
Mülder, Herr, his criticism of Homeric battles, 56, 58-59.
Mure, Col., 226.
Murray, G. G. A., cited on bride-price, 39;
female infanticide, _44_;
on Hector, 46;
on Homeric battles, 56-57, _57-8_;
on Homeric armour, 70, _71_, _73_;
on Homeric mention of iron, 104;
on cremation, 107, _109_;
on sacrificial rites, 129, _130_;
suggests a difference in date between portions of the _Iliad_,
_131_;
on the Cyclic Poems, 150, 200;
on the Ionian Colonists, 144;
thinks Homer borrowed from "Eumelus," 171, _172_;
on reluctance of scholars to admit the possibility of Homer
having borrowed, 176-77;
on Thersites, 180;
on Hector's connection with Boeotia, 183, 184;
on the quality of the _Iliad_, 203;
on the presumed date of the Homeric Epics, 218, 219-21;
his theory of expurgation, 252, 260-8, 288;
particular passages from, quoted and discussed, 268-80, 289-91.
Mycenaean, shields, 5;
--culture, 7;
--tombs, 32;
--palaces, 33;
--daggers, 48;
--arrow points, 50;
--Warrior Vase, 56, 62;
--battles, 56, 57;
--female costume, 83-4;
--gods and goddesses, 113, 114.
Myres, J. L., cited on Greek female costume, 94;
on Pelasgian question, 153.
Naber, Herr, cited, 98.
Nausicaa Homeric presentment of, 34, 37, 83.
Nausithous, a builder of temples, 130;
founder of Phaeacia, 170.
Neleidae, the, 140, 159.
Nelius, Attic legend of, 23;
feud of, with Heracles, 135-6, 168; r., 34.
Nemesis of Rhamnus, a non-Achaean goddess, 199, 212, 221;
conflicting traditions of, 206-7.
Neoptolemus, prowess of, at Troy, 216.
Nephele, legends of, 163-4.
Nestor, his tales of ancient fights, 10-1, 28, 58, 59, 161;
cited on the Achaean attitude towards the Over Lord, 25-6;
his house, 31;
visited by Athene, 128-9;
feud of, with Heracles, 135-6, 168;
garrulity of, 208;
mentions the camp wall, 229, 230;
and the interchange of shields, 252;
site of his city of Pylos, 257-8;
r., 43, 97. 215.
Njal, offers a bride-price, 38.
Odysseus, Egypt known to, 18, 28;
skilled in arts of peace, 30;
his house and family life, 30-1, 41-2, 43;
and the bow of Eurytus, 49, 135;
in battle, 52;
his tunic, 62;
fibula, 64-5;
shield of, 70;
his use of bronze and iron, 98;
story of the removal of the weapons and the wooers, 100-4;
in Hades, 123;
song for the staunching of his blood, 133;
and purification of Achilles, 133, 180;
Ionian hostility to, 160, 202, 216;
relations of, with Circe, 178;
Homeric tradition of, contrasted with others, 183-93, 195, 208,
211, 217, 250-51;
feud of, with kin of the wooers, 252;
seeks for arrow-poison, 278;
r., 15, 17, 22, 25, 32, 35, 112, 129, 130, 181.
_Odyssey_, manner of, Achaean, 12, 221;
account of Crete in, 13, 22;
mention of Egypt and Phoenicians in, 18-9;
the Over Lord, 25;
treatment of women in, 35, 36-7;
family life in, 41-2;
mention of iron weapons in, 100-1, 102-3;
funeral rites, 112;
Demeter mentioned in, 118;
ethical aspect of the gods in, 123-5, 127;
Ionian traits not present in, 150;
Minos in, 156;
geographical knowledge not extensive in, 179, 198;
element of _Märchen_ in, 187;
character of Odysseus, 188-9;
legend of Castor and Polydeuces, 208;
more critically dissected in Germany than in England, 224;
doubtful passages in, 251-2;
who were the purgers?, 263;
mention of poisoned arrows in, 278.
Oedipus, curses his sons, 31;
burial of, 159; r., 139.
Oenomaus, tomb of, 109.
Oiax, avenges Palamedes, 192-3.
Orestes, bones of, carried to Sparta, 126;
purification of, 135;
takes refuge in Athens, 139.
"Overlap," ages of, 96, 97, 102.
Over Lord, the Homeric, 23-7.
Palamedes, inventor of alphabetic writing, 26, 194;
not mentioned by Homer, 160, 193, 198, 199, 208;
Ionian tradition of, 189-2;
Athenian, 192-3;
probably a Culture Hero, 194-6, 220;
Ionian legends of, never intruded into _Iliad_, 211, 212, 218;
r., 202.
Pandarus, ill fame of, 17;
an archer, 49, 50, 278;
shoots at Menelaus, 76;
daughter of, 157.
Panyassis, presumable source of his legends, 172.
Paris, and Helen, 35, 37, 207;
taunted for his use of the bow, 50;
Choice of, 162, 205;
wounds Achilles, 162, 217; r., 71.
Paris, M. Gaston, cited on the _Chanson de Roland_, 253, 254.
Patroclus, relations of, with Achilles, 45, 54, 105, 111, 123,
236-42, 244, 248-9;
relations of, with Hector, 45, 108, 265;
scales the walls of Troy, 47;
burial of, 111, 112;
r., 36, 213. 227, 245.
Pausanias, cited on the bronze corslet, 66;
cited on graves and urns, 109-10;
on the places of nativity of Zeus, 115;
and the fabled genealogy of the Athenians, 138-9;
cited on death of Meleager, 169;
on a Eumelian "History of Corinth," 172, 173, 174;
does not cite Eumelus for Bellerophon, 176;
disagrees with his account of Medea, 178;
antiquarian traditions preserved in, 272, 273;
and legends of human sacrifice, 279;
r., 127, 159, 183, 206, 207, 210, 213.
Pegasus, legends of, 176.
Pelasgians, r., 11, 12, 16, 141, 151-3.
Peleus, 25, 205.
Peneleus, ferocity of, 265.
Penelope, domestic life of, 30;
attitude of, towards Helen, 35, 37;
her bride-price, 38-9;
in _Telegonia_, 182.
Penthesilea, slain by Achilles, 180, 212.
Peplos, description of, 84. _See also_ Costume, women's.
Perdrizet, cited on Greek female costume, 94.
Periclymenus, fairy story of, 136, 168.
Periphetes of Mycenae, 184, 185.
Phaedra, 156.
Pheidias, 115, 117, 206.
Pherecydes, cited, 180, 211.
Philoctetes, bitten by a serpent, 15, 211;
favoured by Attic poets, 189, 202;
arrows of, 214;
ringing back of, 216;
r., 26, 160, 163.
Philostratus, cited on Polyxena, 217.
Phoenicians, 19, 20, 30.
Phoenix, warning of, to Achilles, 25, 238, 243-4;
not properly introduced in Book IX., 250-1;
r., 36, 43, 161.
Phorcys, his corslet, 66.
Phrixus, legends of, 164-5, 279.
_Pictorial Atlas of Iliad and Odyssey, Engelmann and Anderson's_,
illustrations in, cited, 74-5, 77.
Pindar, follows Ionian traditions, 26;
on Pegasus, 176;
adopts Eumelian account of Medea, 178;
belittles Odysseus, 189;
does not reject _märchenhaft_, 264.
Pins, long, use of, in female costume, 84, 86-7, 90, 91.
Pinza cited on Homeric female costume, 91, 93.
Pisistratus (Nestor's son) sacrifices to Athene, 129;
(Athenian) alleged founder of Homeric recitations at Athens, 270;
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.