The World of Homer

by Andrew Lang

—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 the Iliad, [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 the Odyssey, [224];
on the camp wall, [230];
on certain alleged contradictions, [231], [233], [241];
on Thetis, [244];
on Book VIII. of the Iliad, [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]-[75]
not 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., [154]
Minotaur, 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 the Iliad, 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 Homer
having borrowed, [176]-[77];
on Thersites, [180];
on Hector's connection with Boeotia, [183], [184];
on the quality of the Iliad, [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 with others, [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 of Märchen in, [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 into Iliad, [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 the Chanson 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];
in Telegonia, [182].
Penthesilea, slain by Achilles, [180], [212].
Peplos, description of, [84]. See also Costume, 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,

illustrations in, cited, [74]-[5], [77].
Pindar, follows Ionian traditions, [26];
on Pegasus, [176];
adopts Eumelian account of Medea, [178];
belittles Odysseus, [189];
does not reject märchenhaft, [264].
Pins, long, use of, in female costume, [84], [86]-[7], [90], [91].
Pinza cited on Homeric female costume, [91], [93].
Pisistratus (Nestor's son) sacrifices to Athene, [129];
(Athenian) alleged founder of Homeric recitations at Athens, [270];
reputed connection of, with Homeric poems, [281]-[3], [284], [286].
Plato, cited on purification by blood, [134];
cited on the Homeric view of Minos, [155];
his reference to Palamedes, and Aias, [192], [194].
Polydamus, advice of, to Trojans in battle, [52]-[3].
Polydeuces, un-Homeric legends of, [207]-[8], [215].
Polygnotus, his decoration of the Lesche, [66], [274].
Polynices, [31]; burial of, [158]-[9]. ?
Polyxena, traditions of, [195]-[6], [216]-[7].
Poseidon, r., [18], [34], [162];
rallies the Achaeans, [52], [53], [59];
wreaks his grudge on Odysseus, [124];
and Periclymenus, [136], [168];
patron of Ionian league of cities, [144];
doings of, perplexing, [251].
Priam, attitude of, towards Helen, [35];
pays no bride-price, [38];
excusable petulance of, [43];
attitude of, towards Aeneas, [216], [251];
Achilles' reception of, [239], [249]; r., [131], [192].
Proclus, Epitome of, cited, [204], [205], [214].
Protesilaus, [54], [137], [211].
Purification by swine's blood unknown to Homer but familiar
to Ionians, [29], [30], [133]-[4], [135]-[6], [198], [212]-[3];
no Northern example of, [266], [267].
Quintus Smyrnaeus, [215], [276].
Reichel Dr., his criticism of Homeric armour
cited, [65], [68]-[70], [72]-[3], [76], [80].
Rhadamanthus, [16], [156].
Ridgeway, William, his theory of Homer, [102], [136];
his theory of prehistoric language in Greece, [151], [152]-[3].
Roncevaux, the, [291].
Ruined City (Anglo-Saxon poem), [33].
Sacrifice, human, [210]-[1], [216]-[8], [272], [279].
Sacrificial rites, Homeric treatment of, [128]-[30], [131].
"Saga," growth of, [166]-[7].
Saint Aignan, patron of Orleans, [126].
Sainte-Beuve, cited on the Odyssey, [252].
Sarpedon, [13], [17].
Saul, King, treatment of his corpse, [108].
"Schiltrom," formed by Achaeans in battle, [53];
cavalry powerless against, [55].
Scholiast, the, cited, [204]-[5], [213], [241], [244].
Scotland, method of war in, in Roman times, [48];
Highland clans in action, [52];
fabulous genealogy of kings, [138]-[9].
Scott, Sir Walter, works of, r., [41]-[2], [162], [293]-[4].
Semele, mother of Dionysus, [118]-[9].
Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, [41], [194], [274];
Macbeth, [233], [234];
his method of construction compared with Homer's, [254], [255];
King Lear, [277].
Shewan, Mr., cited on Nestor and Thrasymedes, [252].
Sicyon, [174].
Sidney, Sir Philip, his Arcadia cited, [254], [277].
Sinon, [214], [276].
Sisyphus, [17], [123].
Solon, [90]; connection of, with the Athenian Recension of
Homer, [270], [281], [283], [286], [287].
Sophocles, r., [37];
on Hector, [46];
his Oedipous, [159];
belittles Odysseus, [188], [189].
Spata, relics found in tombs of, [145]-[6].
Stasinus, [200], [205].
Stawell, Miss F. Melian, her "Homer and the Iliad" cited,
[72], [77], [224]-[6], [234], [236], [244].
Stesichorus, [210], [213], [217].
Stichios, [138], [184].
Studniczka F. K., cited, [83], [87], [183].
Tantalus, punishment of, [123].
Telegonia, the dénouement of, [182].
Telemachus, quoted on the marriage of Penelope, [39];
bidden to hide the weapons, [100], [102], [103];
un-Homeric traditions of, [182], [208];
journey of, to Pylos, [257]; r., [31], [42], [128].
Telephus, un-Homeric legend of, [209], [220].
Teucer, [43], [49].
Theano, wifely tenderness of, [36], [43], [161];
sacrifices to Athene, [131], [161].
Thebans, the, show the tomb of Hector, [183].
Thebes, wealth of, [18]-[9];
Tale of, Athenian version, [158]-[9].
Themis, [205], [206].
Theocritus, [276].
Thersites, un-Homeric traditions of, [133], [180]-[2], [189], [198], [212]-[3].
Theseus, prowess of, not dwelt upon by Homer, [15], 16;
un-Homeric legends of, [154]-[5], [157]-[9], [199]-[200], [210], [214]-[5], [216], [221];
Ionian legends of, never introduced into Iliad and Odyssey, [218].
Thesmophoria, [117].
Thessaly, civilisation in, dissimilar from Southern Greece, [10]-[11].
Thetis, maternal love of, [34], [36];
prayer of, [54], [195], [235], [236];
advice of, to Achilles, [132];
un-Homeric legends of, [168], [205], [211], [213];
and the armour of Achilles, [244]-[5];
love of Achilles for, [247]-[8].
Thrasymedes, [129], [252].
Thucydides, cited on the Ionian Migration, [143];
on the deaths of Hipparchus and Aristogeiton, [271];
on the history of Pisistratus, [281], [284], [287].
Tirynthian art, female costume, in, [81]-[6].
Tityus, punishment of, [123].
Tlepolemos of Rhodes, [14].
Tribal History, attempt to extract, from names of heroes
in Iliad, [182]-[3], [185], [180].
Troy, siege of, [45]-[9], [51]-[4], [58]-[9], [132], [162]-[3].
Tyro, punishment of, [34], [42].
Tyrtaeus, [286].
Tzetzes, on the parentage of Iphigeneia, [210];
on Polyxena, [217].
Vases:
Black Figure, [5], [6], [48], [67], [74], [75].
François, the, [86]-[90], [93].
Panathenaic, [79].
Red Figure, [5], [67], [74], [75], [77].
Tirynthian, [67].
Warrior, the, [56].
Verrall, A. W., on Mr. Lang's defence of Homeric unity, [226]-[8];
a reply to, [229]-[31];
on the "multiple authorship," [245];
on the Athenian Recitations, [274];
on the customary manner of criticising Homer, [284]-[8].
Virgil, r., [9], [160], [192], [193], [214], [215]-[6], [261].
Volsunga Saga, [36], [253].
Wace, Mr., cited on Greek female costume, [94].
Walters, H. B., cited on the François Vase, [86], [90];
on Ionic female costume, [94].
Waterloo, battle of, cited, [55], [57].
Weapons. See Armour.
Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, U. von, cited on the relation of Homer
to the mass of ancient epic poetry, [200]-[1], [203];
on the Cypria, [219].
Wolf, C. W. F. A., his criticism of the Homeric Poems,
[41], [222], [223], [224], [246], [250], [281], [284].
Wooers, the, [100], [101], [103], [104], [111], [129], [132], [133], [252].
Writing, in Minoan Age, [3].
Xuthus marries the daughter of Erechtheus, [139]-[40].
Zedekiah, King, cremation of, [108].
Zerelia, result of excavations at, [11].
Zeus, and Minos, [16], [155], [156];
Homeric conception of, [43], [116], [118], [120]-[1], [122], [124], [162], [174];
prayer of Thetis to, [54], [235];
birth-myth of, [115];
promises of, fulfilled, [123], [235]-[6], [237];
un-Homeric conceptions of, [190], [195], [204], [206], [209], [211].
Zulus, belief of, in incarnations of the dead, [275].

Transcriber's note: The original book contained several unpaired double quotation marks. It was not clear where the missing quotation marks belonged, so no attempt was made to add them.