History as past ethics; an introduction to the history of morals

by P. V. N. Myers

[462] Ethics, tr. Welldon, i. 4.

[463] Ethics: the Facts of the Moral Life (1908), p. 95.

[464] Od. xix. 396–398.

[465] Thucyd. i. 5.

[466] Il. xxii. 485–499.

[467] See Xen. Mem. ii. 1, 21, for the parable, by the Sophist Prodicus, of the choice of Heracles at the parting of the ways.

[468] The Republic, iii. 386–392.

[469] See above, p. 35.

[470] “The blessed islands of the West were indeed even then [in the Homeric Age] a home for the dead, but they had not yet been opened to moral worth, as in the days of Pindar.”—Mahaffy, Social Life in Greece (1888), p. 26.

[471] See Zeller, History of Philosophy (1881), vol. i, p. 125, and Schmidt, Die Ethik der alten Griechen (1882), Bd. i, S. 99. “Strictly speaking,” says Professor Seymour, “Homer knows of no instance of rewards, and of only one case of punishment after death” (Life in the Homeric Age (1908), p. 469).