STUDIES ON HOMER
AND
THE HOMERIC AGE.
BY THE
RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, D.C.L.
M. P. FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
Plenius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore.--HORACE.
OXFORD:
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
M.DCCC.LVIII.
[_The right of Translation is reserved._]
STUDIES ON HOMER
AND
THE HOMERIC AGE.
I. AGORÈ:
POLITIES OF THE HOMERIC AGE.
II. ILIOS:
TROJANS AND GREEKS COMPARED.
III. THALASSA:
THE OUTER GEOGRAPHY.
IV. AOIDOS:
SOME POINTS OF THE POETRY OF HOMER.
BY THE
RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, D.C.L.
M.P. FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.
Plenius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore.--HORACE.
OXFORD:
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
M.DCCC.LVIII.
[_The right of Translation is reserved._]
ADVERTISEMENT.
Since the Sections which relate to Ethnology passed through the Press,
the First Volume of Mr. Rawlinson’s Herodotus has appeared. Earlier
possession of this important Publication would have emboldened me
to proceed a step further in the attempt to specify the probable or
possible form of the original Ethnic relation between the Pelasgians
and the Hellenes of the Greek Peninsula, but designating the latter
as pure Arian, and the former as Arian, with a residue or mixture of
Turanian elements.
It has also been since the ‘Olympus’ was printed, that I have become
acquainted with Welcker’s recent and unfinished ‘_Griechische
Götterlehre_,’ (Göttingen, 1857.) I could have wished to refer to it
at various points, and especially to avail myself of the clearer view,
which the learned Author has given, of the position of Κρόνος.
Founding himself in part on the exclusive appropriation by Homer of the
term Κρονίδης to Jupiter, he enables us to see how Jupiter may have
inherited the sole use of the title as being ‘the Ancient of days;’
and how Κρόνος was a formation in the Mythology wholly secondary and
posterior to his reputed son. (Welcker, sectt. 27, 8. pp. 140-7.)
Another recent book, M. Alfred Maury’s _Histoire des Religions de la
Grèce Antique_, undertakes the useful task of unfolding largely the
relations of the Greek religion to the East. But the division of it
which deals with Homer specifically is neither complete nor accurate,
and affords a new illustration of the proposition which I chiefly
desire to establish, namely, that Homer ought to be treated as a
separate and independent centre of study.
11, CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE, LONDON,
March 15, 1858.