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Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3 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.
作者：Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898
体例：题 章数：85
字数：947,400 来源：Project Gutenberg
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共 85 题- ADVERTISEMENT.
- THE CONTENTS.
- I. AGORÈ.
- THE POLITIES OF THE HOMERIC AGE.
- I. That held by Agamemnon, as the head of Greece.
- 1. Bœotians.
- 3. Locrians.
- 3. Βασίλεια is used many times in the Odyssey; and is applied to
- 1. Agamemnon, Il. i. 9, and in many places.
- 6. Achilles, Il. i. 331. xvi. 211.
- 7. Diomed, Il. xiv. 27, compared with 29 and 379.
- 8. Ajax Telamonius, Il. vii. 321 connected with 344.
- 9. Ajax, son of Oileus.
- 2. Marked personal vigour; and
- And to the domains of
- In their strictly military capacity they were, however, divided into
- 4. τοξόται (Il. ii. 720. iii. 79).
- II. ILIOS.
- THE TROJANS COMPARED AND CONTRASTED WITH THE GREEKS.
- When Pope closed his Iliad with the line
- 1. Of Ceres, a Pelasgian deity, in Thessaly, Il. ii. 696;
- 1. In Scheria, the ἄλσος of Minerva, Od. vi. 291, 321.
- 4. We will take next the case of statues of the gods.
- 1. The children of Hecuba.
- 2. The children of his other wives.
- 1. Hecuba, as the principal queen.
- 2. Other wives, inferior but distinctly acknowledged.
- 1. Troes under Hector[482]:
- 3. Trojans of Zelea, at the extreme spur of Ida, under Pandarus[484]:
- 5. People of Percote and other towns, under Asius:
- 1. Zelean Troes, under Pandarus, (since slain,) Il. ii. 824-7.
- 3. Percotians &c. under Asius (835-9).
- III. THALASSA.
- THE OUTER GEOGRAPHY OF THE ODYSSEY.
- I therefore lay down the following postulates:
- I begin with the more prevailing pair, Zephyr and Boreas.
- 1. That both these winds in Homer have a decidedly southern character.
- 1. Drift = 2 miles per hour = 48 miles per day of 24 hours.
- 2. Raft = 1¼ drift = 2½ miles per hour = 60 miles per day of 24 hours.
- 1. The route by which the hero actually arrived there:
- 2. The route of Scylla and Charybdis, by which he returned from it:
- I think then that we have now found the two keys to the Outer Geography,
- 1. In the sea-route north of Thrace;
- 2. That he makes Jason pass the Bosphorus:
- 1. It must lie north-west of Ithaca.
- EXCURSUS I.
- ON THE PARENTAGE AND EXTRACTION OF MINOS.
- 1. For the reason stated by Heyne.
- 1. The connection with Dædalus.
- 2. The tradition of the nautical power of Minos.
- EXCURSUS II.
- ON THE LINE ODYSS. V. 277.
- The passage is[659] (the τὴν referring to Ἄρκτον in v. 273)
- 1. The meaning of the important Homeric word ἀριστερός.
- 3. The force of the preposition ἐπὶ, particularly with the accusative.
- 1. Its original force is _upon_, or _on_.
- IV. AOIDOS.
- SECT. I.
- SECT. II.
- But those of Lycaon, which had remained at home, were[772]
- SECT. III.
- SECT. IV.
- I. The paucity of his colours.
- To these we are to add--
- 1. ξανθὸς is applied by Homer to the following objects:
- It is used by Homer for
- Further, the verb πορφύρω is applied
- Again, the compound ἁλιπόρφυρος is applied
- 1. The redness of blood.
- 1. κυανοχαίτης is applied
- 6. πόλιος is applied in Homer as follows:
- 7. χλωρὸς is used in Homer,
- 13. αἴθων is applied in Homer
- With this word we may take its compound αἴθοψ. It is used
- 18, 19. Besides these we have
- I submit that they warrant the two following propositions:
- 2. That we must therefore seek another basis for his system of colour.
- SECT. V.[875]
- Victor apud rapidum Simoenta sub Ilio alto. (Æn. v. 261.)
- SECTION VI.
- She is
- SECT. VII.
- Transcriber's Note
- Outer Geography and Outer geography
- S.E. and S. E. (etc.)