A three-volume scholarly work of essays by the British statesman W. E. Gladstone, here in its first volume. It examines the Homeric question, Homer’s place in classical education, the historic aims of the poems, and the ethnology of the Greek races. Valuable for listeners interested in nineteenth-century Homeric scholarship and Victorian views on ancient Greece.
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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. I.
Plenius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore.—HLjǡĵŕŧ.
OXFORD:
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
M.DCCC.LVIII.
[The right of Translation is reserved.]
STUDIES ON HOMER
AND
THE HOMERIC AGE.
I. PROLEGOMENA. II. ACHÆIS: OR, THE ETHNOLOGY OF THE GREEK RACES. BY THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, D.C.L. M. P. FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Plenius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore.—HLjǡĵŕŧ. OXFORD: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. M.DCCC.LVIII. THE CONTENTS. I. PROLEGOMENA. SECT. I. On the State of the Homeric Question. Objects of this Work Page 1 Results thus far of the Homeric Controversy 2 Improved apparatus for the Study of Homer 4 Effect of the poems on Civilization 5
They do not compete with the Holy Scriptures 6 SECT. II. The Place of Homer in Classical Education. Study of Homer in the English Universities 9 Homer should not be studied as a Poet only 11 His claims compared with those of other Poets 14 Study of Homer in the Public Schools 18 SECT. III. On the Historic Aims of Homer. High organization of the Poems 21 The presumption is that the Poet had Historic aims 22 Positive signs of them 23 Pursued even at some cost of Poetical beauty 26 Minuter indications 28 General tone 28 Hypothesis of reproduction inadmissible 30 What is chiefly meant by his Historic aims 35 SECT. IV. On the probable Date of Homer. The main question: is he an original witness 36 Adverse arguments 37 Affirmative arguments 39 SECT. V. The probable Trustworthiness of the Text of Homer. The received text to be adopted as a basis 42 Failure of other methods 44 State of the Manuscripts 46 Complaints of interpolation 47 Testimonies concerning the early use of the Poems 49 Preservative power of the Recitations or matches 55 Pseudo-Homeric poems 56
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