[4] Iliad, ii. 571, and Leaf's note, ii. 560. Hdt. i. 145.
[5] Thucydides, i. 2.
[6] R, G. E. 50-57.
[7] Hogarth. Ionia and the East, p. 12.
[8] Hogarth, p. 34.
[9] Ibid. pp. 34-36.
[10] Chipiez et Perrot, La Grèce de l'Epopée, pp. 235-246.
[11] Hogarth, p. 104.
[12] Mr. Murray, however, writes: "We know that the great mass of the saga-poetry began to be left on one side and neglected from the eighth century on; and we find, to judge from our fragments" (of the Cyclic poems), "that it remained in its semi-savage state" (Anthropology in Greek Epic, 1908, p. 68). This knowledge is far from common. The Cyclic poems are in the highly developed Homeric hexameter; they are not, I venture to say, "semi-savage"; and, where they differ in beliefs, rites, and customs from Homer, they represent the usages of historic Hellas. They are generally believed to have been composed at the date when Mr. Murray says that they "began to be neglected." Far from being neglected, they certainly afforded much of the materials of the Athenian tragedians, and of the vase painters who choose many more subjects from the Cyclics than from our Homer.
[13] R. G. E. p. 134.