ACITREZZA, the island of,43Æolian-Ionic dialect of theIliadandOdyssey,219Æolus, his island did not move about,183Agamemnon, killed in a covered cloister,18Alcinous, and Arete, their family history,34,35;proposes that Ulysses should stay and marry Nausicaa.37;promises to give Ulysses a gold cup, but never gives it,nor yet his talent of gold,40;tells the Phæacians of Neptune's threat,41,58;Alcinous, Ulysses, Menelaus and Nestor, all drawn fromthe same person,115Amber, Sicilian.260Amphinomus, Ulysses rebukes,76Anticlea, tradition that she hanged herself,65;in Hades, on the situation,132,133Antinous, never really wanted to marry Penelope,91;his death throes and the good meat that was spoiled,154Argenteria, the, near Trapani,230Argus, Ulysses and,151Aristarchus, made most use of the Marseillesedition ofIliadandOdyssey,219Armour, removal of the,155Art, only interesting in so far as it reveals an artist,6;the canons of, it is better to be below than above,267Arthurian legends, the, and Tennyson,123Asinelli, the islet,189Athenœum, the author's two letters to the,ix.,x.Atreus, treasury of.193Antolycus, an accomplished thief and perjurer,81Axe, Calypso's, had a handle,10Axes, the, why did not the suitors snatch them up?153,154BALACLAVA, said to resemble Trapani,5Bayeux tapestry,11,13Bear, the great; Ulysses told to steer bythe,29,181,182,187,197Bentley, saying theOdysseywas written for women,4;not perceiving that theOdysseyis of later datethan theIliad,5Biaggini, the late E.,ix.,195Blind, how commentators came to think that Homer was,7Brigands, modern, and Cyclopes,193Brooch, the, of Ulysses.80,227Bunyan,110,111Butcher and Lang, Messrs., their translation of theOdyssey,7Buttmann, on the Wandering Cliffs,196CALYPSOkept no man-servant,107;her sailing directions to Ulysses,181,182,187,197Catalogues, the Iliadic known to the writer oftheOdyssey,174,237Cave, forms of the word, much more common inOdysseythanIliad,194Caves, the two near the place where Ulysses landed in Ithaca,165-170Cave-dwellers near Trapani,193,194Cefalù, megalithic remains at,185;called Portazza,185;relays of fresh milk at,186Charybdis and the Galofaro,197Chorizontes, the,5,266Circe, kept no man-servant,107;as good a prophet as Teiresias,149;her house and Eumæus's pig-farm,195Clergyman, doctor, carpenter, bard,152Clytemnestra, naturally of a good disposition,24,116Coleridge saw no burlesque in the speechesof the players inHamlet,259Collesano, Byzantine (?) remains at,185Conturràno and his development since theOdyssey,192Corfu, anciently called Drepane and then Scheria,225,226Cyclopes, and Læstrygonians, one race,181;the, had two eyes,191;still near neighbours of the Phæacians,190;and modern Brigands, as per Mr. Stigand's reportin theTimes,193Cyclops means round-faced as μήλωψ, apple-faced,190;Parmenides called the moon Cyclops,190DANTE, the people whom he meets in another world,112;è un falso idolo,113Darknesses, the two most notable of theOdyssey,188,189,198Defoe, sends Robinson Crusoe a man, not a woman,114Didyme, and the island of the Sirens,195,196Disc, Ulysses throws a,39,116Dobree and Φωκέων,223Doerpfeld, Dr., and the Iliadic wall,217,218Dolius, and Ulysses, in the house of Laertes,102,156Door, bedroom at Trapani fastened in the Odyssean manner,141Drepane and Drepanum,225Dulichium, the most important of the Odyssean islands,170,177ELPENOR, and Ulysses in Hades,110; his strange fall,195Elymi, Thucydides on the,223Epic cycle, the Trojan books of the, knownto the writer of theOdyssey,249,250Eryx the Sican city on the top of, not abandoned,221Eteoneus, only a char-butler,140Ethiopians, the, known as stretching all across Africa,18Eubœa, assumed by Alcinous to be moredistant from Scheria than Ithaca,37Eumæus, a male writer would have killed him,156;a native of Syracuse,210-212;perhaps a Greek,214Eurybates, why hunched in the shoulders,235,236Euryclea, becomes Eurynome,74,76,79;the price paid for her, a rejoinder to theIliad,143;and Eurynome the same person,150,151Eurymachus, his death throes, and thegood meat that was spoiled,154Eurymedon, his overthrow,31,219,220Eurynome,seeEurycleaEwes, and lambs, the present practice in Sicily,148FAVOGNANA, derived from Favonius,180;why Ulysses was not allowed to see,197,198Fielding, his journey to the next world,113; on Homer,114Fifths and Octaves, consecutive, forbidden,119Four main lines of the argument,163Freeman, Prof., his map of the West coast of Sicily,176;visited Trapani,263GEESE, Penelope's dream about the,82Genius, an offence, &c.,264;to be stamped out while young,265Giacalone-Patti, Prof.,ixGladstone, the Right Hon. W. E., hiscanons as regards the text ofIliadandOdyssey, viii.; the "systematic andcomprehensive" study of Homer stillyoung,5,6; contrasts theIliadandOdyssey,106; on Clytemnestra,117;on the time when Homer wrote,216Grammerton and Shrewsbury,160Greatheart, Mr.,109Grotta del Toro, the,167-170HADES, the writer's attitude towards women, in,109-112Harbour, Rheithron, used five times in theOdyssey,167;of Trapani, boatmen plying for hire,172Hawk, tearing its prey, while still on the wing,9,66Helen, coming down to dinner at the house of Menelaus,25;mixes Nepenthe in the wine,26,144;outside the wooden house,144;her penitence for the wrong that Venus had done her,144;her present of a bridal dress to Telemachus,150Heraclidæ, return of, undateable,215Hermione, her marriage found more interesting than that ofMegapenthes,136; her marriage interpolated,137Hesiod, records a time when iron was not known,193Homer, his infinite subtlety,216;the authoress of theOdysseywas angry with him,247;why the writer of theOdysseylet him so severely alone,250,257;protest against "Introductions to Homer," which include theOdyssey,263Horace, andmediocribus esse poetis,264Horse the Trojan, story of the, shows that the Greeks did not know howTroy fell,217Hotel, man no use in a,107House of Ulysses, the,16,17,18Hypereia, near the Cyclopes,31;probable remains of its wall,190;not completely abandoned,221IACENSES, the,231Iakin, the coin, and the British Museum catalogueof Sicilian coins,227,228Ιακὀς, means Ionian,213Iliad, catalogues of the,173; date of,215-219;the, refers to no event known to have been later than B.C. 1100,218Ingroia, Cav. Prof. of Calatafimi,ix.Invention, not the authoress's strong point,202-204Ionian Settlements on East Sicilian shores,213Irus, and Iris,116Ismarus, and its wine,180Italia, and Œnotria,184Ithaca, drawn from Trapani and its neighbourhood,165;drawn from the island of Marettimo as well as from Trapani,172;"all highest up in the sea," sketch of,178JEBB, Prof, the 1892 edition of hisIntroduction to Homer,x.,xi.;hisIntroduction to Homer,3; his quotation from Bentley,4;on Bentley's not seeing that theOdysseywas of later datethan theIliad,5;on the house of Ulysses,15,16;and the date of theOdyssey,210;mentioned,233,234,249,252Jews, their prayers, for men and for women,114Jones, H. Festing,xxi.; his, and the author's, joint oratorio Ulysses,6;mentioned,169,186,193KIRCHHOF, on the first 87 lines ofOd. i.,252LAERTES, why he left off calling on Penelope and coming to town,131;not poor,132Læstrygonians, derivation of the word, andlastricare,181;and Cyclopes one race,181; their relays of fresh milk,184Lambs, living on two pulls a day at a milked ewe,9,44;and ewes—the present practice,148Lang, Mr. Andrew, on the house of Ulysses,15,16Latin names, the use of for Greek gods and heroes defended,xi.,xii.,xiii.Layard, Sir H., visited Trapani,263List of points necessary for the identification of Scheria,158,159Lubbock, Sir John, his hundred books,118Lucian, the most ungallant of all,113MAGISTRATE, a hungry, Ulysses compared to,56,150Malconsiglio, legends concerning,165Malta, not Calypso's island,181,187Man, and woman, never fully understand one another,105;can caricature each other, but not draw,106Marettimo, the island, had a wall all round it,194Marseilles, the civic edition ofIliadandOdysseyused most largely by Aristarchus,219Mediocribus esse poetis, &c.,264Megalithieism, the two kinds of,193Megapenthes, only married because his sister was,138Melanthius and the store-room,154,155Menelaus, Ulysses. Alcinous, and Nestor, all from the same person,115;the collapse of his splendour in Book xv.,139;he used to sell wine,139; his frankbourgeoisie,139;his fussiness,139; why made to come back on the day of Ægisthus'sfuneral feast,236Mentor, his name coined from Nestor's,235Milk rarely to be had fresh except in themorning in Sicily and S. Italy,186Milking ewes, what Sicilian shepherds now do,148Minerva, not an easy person to recognise, and had deserted Ulyssesfor a long time,59,257,258;Ulysses upbraids her for not telling Telemachus about his return,60;her opinion of Penelope,131,135;her singular arrangements for Telemachus,110;Ulysses remonstrates with her,141;sending Telemachus a West wind to take him from Ithaca to Pylos,199;her total absence in Books ix.-xii. apologised for,257,258Mixing-bowl, the, in an angle of the cloisters,88;Phemius lays his lyre down near the, and near the approachto the trap-door,94Motya,177Mure, Colonel, on the Phæacian episode,7,258; visited Trapani,263NARCISSUS, a cantata by H. Festing Jones, Esq., and the author,259Nausicaa, her dream, and going to the wash,31,32;her meeting with Ulysses,32-34;the ill-natured gossip of her fellow townspeople,33;her farewell to Ulysses,41;the most probable authoress,206-208Nepenthe, the order in which its virtues are recorded,114Neptune, turns the Phæacian ship into stone,58Nestor, Alcinous, Menelaus, and Ulysses,all drawn from the same person,115OCCASIONALnotes, to show that the writer is a woman,142-157Octaves consecutive,119,204Odyssey, the examples of feminine mistakes,9;refers to nothing of later date than B.C. 1100,218ὀρσοθύρα, the,17,92; the way towards was in the cornerof the cloister, near the mixing-bowl,94Œnotria, and Italia,184Olympia, apparently unknown to the writer,218Orsi, Dr., mentioned,185,186;and pre-Corinthian cemeteries near Syracuse,213Ortygia, and Syra,65,211PAGOTO, Signor Giuseppe.148Pantellaria, rightly placed as regards Scheria,187;still a prison-island,203Parmenides, calls the moon Cyclops,190Penelope, her web,21,129; gets presents out of the suitors,76;scandalous [ver] of her conduct in ancient writers,125;versions she protests too much,126;did she ever try snubbing or boring,130;Minerva's opinion of her,134,135;and the upset bath,152;gloating over the luxury of woe,152;not a satisfactory guardian of the estate,153;tells her story to Ulysses before Ulysses tells his to her,157Perseus, does not rescue Andromeda,109Phæacian women, their skill in weaving, and general intelligence,35Phæacians, the, making drink offerings to Mercury (covert satire)36;Ulysses' farewell to the,108; a thin disguise for Phocæans,219;used 50-oared vessels like the Phocæans,220Phemius, begs for mercy,94Phocæa; and Phocæans,218Phocæa, an Ionian city surrounded by Æolians,219Phocæans, the, used 50-oared vessels,220; and Phocians,4,222,223Phœnician quarrymen's marks on walls of Eryx,192Phœnicians, the, distrusted, but not much known about Phœnicia,218Piacus,228Pic-nic, a, to Polyphemus's cave,147,148Pisistratus, accompanies Telemachus to Sparta,24;does not like crying during dinner,25; gets no present,150Platt, Mr. Arthur, on the house of Ulysses,15,16Poetesses, early Greek, abundant,11,12Policeman, identifying prisoner,160Polyphemus, and his cave, drawn from life,147,148;his system of milking,148; his cave still calledla grotta diPolifemo,188; the rocks he threw, Asinelli and Formiche,189;had two eyes,191: and Conturràno,191,192Portazza, and Telepylus,185QUARRY, called Dacinoi,231RAFT, Ulysses',29Raven rock, the,165,171Rheithron, the harbour, used five times inOdyssey,107Rudder, the poetess's ideas about a,9,10"Ruler," a two foot, betraying a writer as a woman,10SALTworks of S. Cusumano,166Sappho, and other early Greek poetesses,11,12Sardinian smile, a,203Scheria, means Jutland,31; and Drepane,ancient names of Corfu,225,226Schliemann, visited Trapani,263Seals, the intolerable smell of,144;or Phocæ, malicious allusion to Phocæans,220Segesta, later than theOdyssey,185Selborne, Lord, his reminiscences,172Servants, like being told to eat and drink,65Shelley, on the sweetness of theOdyssey,106Shield of Achilles, the, its genuineness defended,243-246Shipwreck, and loss of Ulysses' ship,56Shirt, a clean, Alcinous' and his sons' views concerning,145Shrewsbury, and Grammerton,160Sicels, in theOdyssey,211-215Σικανίης, not corrupted into, Σικλίης,214Sirens, the, and Didyme,195,196Sleep, the, of Ulysses,173,253,254Smyth, Admiral, on the Æolian islands and on Charybdis,196,197Snow, frequent in theIliad, but hardlyever named in theOdyssey,260Spadaro, Prof., of Marettimo,194Sugameli, Signor, v.,166,169,230,231Suitors, the, how many from each island,68;they are also the people who were sponging on Alcinous,123;they cannot be perfect lovers and perfect spongers atthe same time,127; their version of Penelope's conduct,128,129Sun, turnings of the,211,212Sun-god, the, leaving his sheep and cattle in charge of two nymphs,149Swallow, Ulysses bowstring sings like a90;Minerva flies out to the rafters like a,154Syracuse, pre-Corinthian,211,212TARRAGONA, the walls of,222Taygetus range, still roadless,198Tedesco, Signor, of Marettimo,194Telegony, the, and theOdyssey,125Telemachus, lectured by Minerva,120; and by Penelope,121;the two great evils that have fallen on his house,122;only twelve years old when Ulysses went to Hades,133;his alarm about his property,135,136;did not tip Eteoneus,150Telepylus, a fictitious name,184Temesa, copper mines of,19; its people did not speak Greek,214Tennyson, and the Arthurian legends,123Theoclymenus sees the doom that overhangs the suitors and leavesthe house,86; his presence in the poem, strange,201Thersites, and Eurybates,235,236Tholus, the,17,95,98Thucydides, and "Phocians of those from Troy,"4,5,222,223;on the Cyclopes and Læstrygonians,184; substantially inaccord with the writer of theOdyssey,221; biassed infavour of the Corfu Drepane rather than the Sicilian Drepanum,226Tiresias, his prophecy, and warning about the cattle ofthe Sun,49,50,254,255,256Toro, grotta del,167-170Trapdoor, the,92; the way towards was in the corner of thecloisters near the mixing bowl,94Trapani, what any rival site has got to show before claiming muchconsideration,162Trapani and Ægadean islands from Mt. Eryx, sketch of,178Troy, date of its real or supposed fall,215-218"ULYSSES," H. Festing Jones's and S. Butler's oratorio,6Ulysses, fastens his chest with a knot that Circe had taught him,258;his deep sleep,173,253,254; upbraids Minerva for not tellingTelemachus about his impending return,60,141; and Argus,72,151;rebukes Amphinomus,76; rebukes Eurymachus,78;he and Telemachus remove the armour,79,155;his brooch,80,227; having his feet washed by Euryclea,81,152;compared to a paunch cooking before a fire,83,153;his bedroom, surmise that the maids were hanged all round it,98;interview with Laertes in the garden,101,102;eating with Dolius,102,155;his farewell speeches to the Phæacians, and to Queen Arete,108;his main grievance a money one,109; he, Alcinous, Menelaus andNestor, all drawn from the same person,115; always thankless,150;why not allowed to see either Favognana or the Scherian coast,188,197,198; house of, and that of Alcinous,205,206Unconscious, examples of,236,237,238,239Ustica, as the island of Æolus,183VAULTEDroom, the,17,95,98Virgil, and Æneas in Hades,113; gives the Cyclopes only one eye,191;and Drepanum,224WALL, the Iliadic, date of,217,218Wandering cliffs, the,53,51,55,196Wolf, his theory baseless and mischievous2,3Woman and man, never fully understand one another,105;can caricature each other, but not draw,106Women, single, will not have a man in the house if they can help it,107;in Hades, the writer's attitude towards,110,111;treatment of the guilty, in the house of Ulysses,117-119World, its greatest men know little of the,267YORK, the Duke of, and his marriage,108Young people, apt to be thoughtless,37,116ZIMMERN, Miss Helen,ix.Zummari, la Caletta dei,195