Chapter 18

—poets, their treatment of women,37;—historical warfare,56;—poets, anachronisms of,60-3,70;—art,148-9,150.Ionians, who were they?,137-8;their fabulous genealogy,138-9,140;difference between, and Achaeans,141;Homeric conception of,142-3;intermarriages and religious observances of,143-4;in Attica,147;mixed traditions of,154,157;have no Homeric traditions,158;attempts of, to attach themselves to the great traditions,158-9,160,195;degradation of Odysseus traceable to,189-90,193;could not purge what they themselves practised,268.Iphigeneia, various legends of,157,193,210-11,221,279.Iphitus, murder of,135,136.Ireland, early civilisation in,21-2;heroic, ceremonial observances in,31;method of war in, in late Celtic times,48.Iron, early and later uses of,3,4,5,21,96-104,107.Isocrates, boasts of Theseus,158-9;cited on the public recitation of Homer,282-3,285.Itylus,157.Jardanus (river),13.Jason, loves Hypsipyle,96,179;legends of,165-7,175-6.Jehoram, King, not cremated,108.Kalewala, the Finnish,165,166.Kirchhoff, Herr, cited on Homeric mention of iron,100.Kuhnert, Herr Ernst, on quality of Homer's poetry,169.Laertes,43.Laestrygones,18.Laid law, William,294.Land Tenure, Homeric,21-3;in Ionian colonies,23.Langside, battle of,53.Laocoon,215.Laomedon,162.Layard. Sir A. H., cited on Greek armour and costume,67,74,91,92,93.Leaf, Walter, cited on Homeric fighting,58;on Homeric armour,70,76;on costume of Mycenaean women,83-4;on archaic female costume,94;on false passage in theIliad,103;on Demeter and Diogenes,118;on the "chiton trailers,"138;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 theOdyssey,224;on the camp wall,230;on certain alleged contradictions,231,233,241;on Thetis,244;on Book VIII. of theIliad,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,165-7,173-75not 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.,154Minotaur, 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 theIliad,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 Homerhaving borrowed,176-77;on Thersites,180;on Hector's connection with Boeotia,183,184;on the quality of theIliad,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 withothers,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 ofMärchenin,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,189-190;Athenian,192-3;probably a Culture Hero,194-6,220;Ionian legends of, never intruded intoIliad,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 theChanson 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;inTelegonia,182.Penthesilea, slain by Achilles,180,212.Peplos, description of,84.See alsoCostume, 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,


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