[1] I see that my grandfather, Dr. Butler, of Shrewsbury, accepts it in his Antient Geography, published in 1813, but I do not know where he got it from.
INDEX
Nothing will be Indexed which can be found readily by referring to the Table of Contents.
ACITREZZA, the island of, [43]
Æolian-Ionic dialect of the Iliad and Odyssey, [219]
Æolus, his island did not move about, [183]
Agamemnon, killed in a covered cloister, [18]
Alcinous, and Arete, their family history, [34], [35];
proposes that Ulysses should stay and marry Nausicaa. [37];
promises to give Ulysses a gold cup, but never gives it,
nor yet his talent of gold, [40];
tells the Phæacians of Neptune's threat, [41], [58];
Alcinous, Ulysses, Menelaus and Nestor, all drawn from
the same person, [115]
Amber, Sicilian. [260]
Amphinomus, Ulysses rebukes, [76]
Anticlea, tradition that she hanged herself, [65];
in Hades, on the situation, [132], [133]
Antinous, never really wanted to marry Penelope, [91];
his death throes and the good meat that was spoiled, [154]
Argenteria, the, near Trapani, [230]
Argus, Ulysses and, [151]
Aristarchus, made most use of the Marseilles
edition of Iliad and Odyssey, [219]
Armour, removal of the, [155]
Art, only interesting in so far as it reveals an artist, [6];
the canons of, it is better to be below than above, [267]
Arthurian legends, the, and Tennyson, [123]
Asinelli, the islet, [189]
Athenœum, the author's two letters to the, [ix.], [x].
Atreus, treasury of. [193]
Antolycus, an accomplished thief and perjurer, [81]
Axe, Calypso's, had a handle, [10]
Axes, the, why did not the suitors snatch them up? [153], [154]
BALACLAVA, said to resemble Trapani, [5]
Bayeux tapestry, [11], [13]
Bear, the great; Ulysses told to steer by
the, [29], [181], [182], [187], [197]
Bentley, saying the Odyssey was written for women, [4];
not perceiving that the Odyssey is of later date
than the Iliad, [5]
Biaggini, the late E., [ix.], [195]
Blind, how commentators came to think that Homer was, [7]
Brigands, modern, and Cyclopes, [193]
Brooch, the, of Ulysses. [80], [227]
Bunyan, [110], [111]
Butcher and Lang, Messrs., their translation of the Odyssey, [7]
Buttmann, on the Wandering Cliffs, [196]
CALYPSO kept no man-servant, [107];
her sailing directions to Ulysses, [181], [182], [187], [197]
Catalogues, the Iliadic known to the writer of
the Odyssey, [174], [237]
Cave, forms of the word, much more common in Odyssey
than Iliad, [194]
Caves, the two near the place where Ulysses landed in Ithaca, [165]-[170]
Cave-dwellers near Trapani, [193], [194]
Cefalù, megalithic remains at, [185];
called Portazza,[185];
relays of fresh milk at, [186]
Charybdis and the Galofaro, [197]
Chorizontes, the, [5], [266]
Circe, kept no man-servant, [107];
as good a prophet as Teiresias, [149];
her house and Eumæus's pig-farm, [195]
Clergyman, doctor, carpenter, bard, [152]
Clytemnestra, naturally of a good disposition, [24], [116]
Coleridge saw no burlesque in the speeches
of the players in Hamlet, [259]
Collesano, Byzantine (?) remains at, [185]
Conturràno and his development since the Odyssey, [192]
Corfu, anciently called Drepane and then Scheria, [225], [226]
Cyclopes, and Læstrygonians, one race, [181];
the, had two eyes, [191];
still near neighbours of the Phæacians, [190];
and modern Brigands, as per Mr. Stigand's report
in the Times, [193]
Cyclops means round-faced as μήλωψ, apple-faced, [190];
Parmenides called the moon Cyclops, [190]
DANTE, the people whom he meets in another world, [112];
è un falso idolo, [113]
Darknesses, the two most notable of the Odyssey, [188], [189], [198]
Defoe, sends Robinson Crusoe a man, not a woman, [114]
Didyme, and the island of the Sirens, [195], [196]
Disc, Ulysses throws a, [39], [116]
Dobree and Φωκέων, [223]
Doerpfeld, Dr., and the Iliadic wall, [217], [218]
Dolius, and Ulysses, in the house of Laertes, [102], [156]
Door, bedroom at Trapani fastened in the Odyssean manner, [141]
Drepane and Drepanum, [225]
Dulichium, the most important of the Odyssean islands, [170], [177]
ELPENOR, and Ulysses in Hades, [110]; his strange fall, [195]
Elymi, Thucydides on the, [223]
Epic cycle, the Trojan books of the, known
to the writer of the Odyssey, [249], [250]
Eryx the Sican city on the top of, not abandoned, [221]
Eteoneus, only a char-butler,[140]
Ethiopians, the, known as stretching all across Africa, [18]
Eubœa, assumed by Alcinous to be more
distant from Scheria than Ithaca, [37]
Eumæus, a male writer would have killed him, [156];
a native of Syracuse, [210]-[212];
perhaps a Greek, [214]
Eurybates, why hunched in the shoulders, [235], [236]
Euryclea, becomes Eurynome, [74],[76], [79];
the price paid for her, a rejoinder to the Iliad,[143];
and Eurynome the same person, [150], [151]
Eurymachus, his death throes, and the
good meat that was spoiled, [154]
Eurymedon, his overthrow, [31], [219], [220]
Eurynome, see Euryclea
Ewes, and lambs, the present practice in Sicily, [148]
FAVOGNANA, derived from Favonius, [180];
why Ulysses was not allowed to see, [197], [198]
Fielding, his journey to the next world, [113]; on Homer, [114]
Fifths and Octaves, consecutive, forbidden, [119]
Four main lines of the argument, [163]
Freeman, Prof., his map of the West coast of Sicily, [176];
visited Trapani, [263]
GEESE, Penelope's dream about the, [82]
Genius, an offence, &c., [264];
to be stamped out while young, [265]
Giacalone-Patti, Prof., [ix]
Gladstone, the Right Hon. W. E., his
canons as regards the text of Iliad and
Odyssey, viii.; the "systematic and
comprehensive" study of Homer still
young, [5], [6]; contrasts the Iliad and
Odyssey, [106]; on Clytemnestra, [117];
on the time when Homer wrote, [216]
Grammerton and Shrewsbury, [160]
Greatheart, Mr., [109]
Grotta del Toro, the, [167]-[170]
HADES, the writer's attitude towards women, in, [109]-[112]
Harbour, Rheithron, used five times in the Odyssey, [167];
of Trapani, boatmen plying for hire, [172]
Hawk, tearing its prey, while still on the wing, [9], [66]
Helen, coming down to dinner at the house of Menelaus, [25];
mixes Nepenthe in the wine, [26], [144];
outside the wooden house, [144];
her penitence for the wrong that Venus had done her, [144];
her present of a bridal dress to Telemachus, [150]
Heraclidæ, return of, undateable, [215]
Hermione, her marriage found more interesting than that of
Megapenthes, [136]; her marriage interpolated, [137]
Hesiod, records a time when iron was not known, [193]
Homer, his infinite subtlety, [216];
the authoress of the Odyssey was angry with him, [247];
why the writer of the Odyssey let him so severely alone, [250], [257];
protest against "Introductions to Homer," which include the Odyssey, [263]
Horace, and mediocribus esse poetis, [264]
Horse the Trojan, story of the, shows that the Greeks did not know how
Troy fell, [217]
Hotel, man no use in a, [107]
House of Ulysses, the, [16], [17], [18]
Hypereia, near the Cyclopes, [31];
probable remains of its wall, [190];
not completely abandoned, [221]
IACENSES, the, [231]
Iakin, the coin, and the British Museum catalogue
of Sicilian coins, [227], [228]
Ιακὀς, means Ionian, [213]
Iliad, catalogues of the, [173]; date of, [215]-[219];
the, refers to no event known to have been later than B.C. 1100, [218]
Ingroia, Cav. Prof. of Calatafimi, [ix.]
Invention, not the authoress's strong point, [202]-[204]
Ionian Settlements on East Sicilian shores, [213]
Irus, and Iris, [116]
Ismarus, and its wine, [180]
Italia, and Œnotria, [184]
Ithaca, drawn from Trapani and its neighbourhood, [165];
drawn from the island of Marettimo as well as from Trapani, [172];
"all highest up in the sea," sketch of, [178]
JEBB, Prof, the 1892 edition of his Introduction to Homer, [x]., [xi.];
his Introduction to Homer, [3]; his quotation from Bentley, [4];
on Bentley's not seeing that the Odyssey was of later date
than the Iliad, [5];
on the house of Ulysses, [15], [16];
and the date of the Odyssey, [210];
mentioned, [233], [234], [249], [252]
Jews, their prayers, for men and for women, [114]
Jones, H. Festing, [xxi.]; his, and the author's, joint oratorio Ulysses, [6];
mentioned, [169], [186], [193]
KIRCHHOF, on the first 87 lines of Od. i., [252]
LAERTES, why he left off calling on Penelope and coming to town, [131];
not poor, [132]
Læstrygonians, derivation of the word, and lastricare, [181];
and Cyclopes one race, [181]; their relays of fresh milk, [184]
Lambs, living on two pulls a day at a milked ewe, [9], [44];
and ewes—the present practice, [148]
Lang, Mr. Andrew, on the house of Ulysses, [15], [16]
Latin names, the use of for Greek gods and heroes defended, [xi]., [xii.], [xiii.]
Layard, Sir H., visited Trapani, [263]
List of points necessary for the identification of Scheria, [158], [159]
Lubbock, Sir John, his hundred books, [118]
Lucian, the most ungallant of all, [113]
MAGISTRATE, a hungry, Ulysses compared to, [56], [150]
Malconsiglio, legends concerning, [165]
Malta, not Calypso's island, [181], [187]
Man, and woman, never fully understand one another, [105];
can caricature each other, but not draw, [106]
Marettimo, the island, had a wall all round it, [194]
Marseilles, the civic edition of Iliad and
Odyssey used most largely by Aristarchus, [219]
Mediocribus esse poetis, &c., [264]
Megalithieism, the two kinds of, [193]
Megapenthes, only married because his sister was, [138]
Melanthius and the store-room, [154], [155]
Menelaus, Ulysses. Alcinous, and Nestor, all from the same person, [115];
the collapse of his splendour in Book xv., [139];
he used to sell wine, [139]; his frank bourgeoisie, [139];
his fussiness, [139]; why made to come back on the day of Ægisthus's
funeral feast, [236]
Mentor, his name coined from Nestor's, [235]
Milk rarely to be had fresh except in the
morning in Sicily and S. Italy, [186]
Milking ewes, what Sicilian shepherds now do, [148]
Minerva, not an easy person to recognise, and had deserted Ulysses
for a long time, [59], [257], [258];
Ulysses upbraids her for not telling Telemachus about his return, [60];
her opinion of Penelope, [131], [135];
her singular arrangements for Telemachus, [110];
Ulysses remonstrates with her, [141];
sending Telemachus a West wind to take him from Ithaca to Pylos, [199];
her total absence in Books ix.-xii. apologised for, [257], [258]
Mixing-bowl, the, in an angle of the cloisters, [88];
Phemius lays his lyre down near the, and near the approach
to the trap-door, [94]
Motya, [177]
Mure, Colonel, on the Phæacian episode, [7], [258]; visited Trapani, [263]
NARCISSUS, a cantata by H. Festing Jones, Esq., and the author, [259]
Nausicaa, her dream, and going to the wash, [31],32;
her meeting with Ulysses, [32]-[34];
the ill-natured gossip of her fellow townspeople, [33];
her farewell to Ulysses, [41];
the most probable authoress, [206]-[208]
Nepenthe, the order in which its virtues are recorded, [114]
Neptune, turns the Phæacian ship into stone, [58]
Nestor, Alcinous, Menelaus, and Ulysses,
all drawn from the same person, [115]
OCCASIONAL notes, to show that the writer is a woman, [142]-[157]
Octaves consecutive, [119], [204]
Odyssey, the examples of feminine mistakes, [9];
refers to nothing of later date than B.C. 1100, [218]
ὀρσοθύρα, the, [17], [92]; the way towards was in the corner
of the cloister, near the mixing-bowl, [94]
Œnotria, and Italia, [184]
Olympia, apparently unknown to the writer, [218]
Orsi, Dr., mentioned, [185], [186];
and pre-Corinthian cemeteries near Syracuse, [213]
Ortygia, and Syra, [65], [211]
PAGOTO, Signor Giuseppe. [148]
Pantellaria, rightly placed as regards Scheria, [187];
still a prison-island, [203]
Parmenides, calls the moon Cyclops, [190]
Penelope, her web, [21], [129]; gets presents out of the suitors, [76];
scandalous [ver] of her conduct in ancient writers, [125];
versions she protests too much, [126];
did she ever try snubbing or boring, [130];
Minerva's opinion of her, [134], [135];
and the upset bath, [152];
gloating over the luxury of woe, [152];
not a satisfactory guardian of the estate, [153];
tells her story to Ulysses before Ulysses tells his to her, [157]
Perseus, does not rescue Andromeda, [109]
Phæacian women, their skill in weaving, and general intelligence, [35]
Phæacians, the, making drink offerings to Mercury (covert satire) [36];
Ulysses' farewell to the, [108]; a thin disguise for Phocæans, [219];
used 50-oared vessels like the Phocæans, [220]
Phemius, begs for mercy, [94]
Phocæa; and Phocæans, [218]
Phocæa, an Ionian city surrounded by Æolians, [219]
Phocæans, the, used 50-oared vessels, [220]; and Phocians, [4], [222], [223]
Phœnician quarrymen's marks on walls of Eryx, [192]
Phœnicians, the, distrusted, but not much known about Phœnicia, [218]
Piacus, [228]
Pic-nic, a, to Polyphemus's cave, [147], [148]
Pisistratus, accompanies Telemachus to Sparta, [24];
does not like crying during dinner, [25]; gets no present, [150]
Platt, Mr. Arthur, on the house of Ulysses, [15], [16]
Poetesses, early Greek, abundant, [11], [12]
Policeman, identifying prisoner, [160]
Polyphemus, and his cave, drawn from life, [147], [148];
his system of milking, [148]; his cave still called la grotta di
Polifemo, [188]; the rocks he threw, Asinelli and Formiche, [189];
had two eyes, [191]: and Conturràno, [191], [192]
Portazza, and Telepylus, [185]
QUARRY, called Dacinoi, [231]
RAFT, Ulysses', [29]
Raven rock, the, [165], [171]
Rheithron, the harbour, used five times in Odyssey, [107]
Rudder, the poetess's ideas about a, [9], [10]
"Ruler," a two foot, betraying a writer as a woman, [10]
SALT works of S. Cusumano, [166]
Sappho, and other early Greek poetesses, [11], [12]
Sardinian smile, a, [203]
Scheria, means Jutland, [31]; and Drepane,
ancient names of Corfu, [225], [226]
Schliemann, visited Trapani, [263]
Seals, the intolerable smell of, [144];
or Phocæ, malicious allusion to Phocæans, [220]
Segesta, later than the Odyssey, [185]
Selborne, Lord, his reminiscences, [172]
Servants, like being told to eat and drink, [65]
Shelley, on the sweetness of the Odyssey, [106]
Shield of Achilles, the, its genuineness defended, [243]-[246]
Shipwreck, and loss of Ulysses' ship, [56]
Shirt, a clean, Alcinous' and his sons' views concerning, [145]
Shrewsbury, and Grammerton, [160]
Sicels, in the Odyssey, [211]-[215]
Σικανίης, not corrupted into, Σικλίης, [214]
Sirens, the, and Didyme, [195], [196]
Sleep, the, of Ulysses, [173], [253], [254]
Smyth, Admiral, on the Æolian islands and on Charybdis, [196], [197]
Snow, frequent in the Iliad, but hardly
ever named in the Odyssey, [260]
Spadaro, Prof., of Marettimo, [194]
Sugameli, Signor, v., [166], [169], [230], [231]
Suitors, the, how many from each island, [68];
they are also the people who were sponging on Alcinous, [123];
they cannot be perfect lovers and perfect spongers at
the same time, [127]; their version of Penelope's conduct, [128], [129]
Sun, turnings of the, [211], [212]
Sun-god, the, leaving his sheep and cattle in charge of two nymphs, [149]
Swallow, Ulysses bowstring sings like a [90];
Minerva flies out to the rafters like a, [154]
Syracuse, pre-Corinthian, [211], [212]
TARRAGONA, the walls of, [222]
Taygetus range, still roadless, [198]
Tedesco, Signor, of Marettimo, [194]
Telegony, the, and the Odyssey, [125]
Telemachus, lectured by Minerva, [120]; and by Penelope, [121];
the two great evils that have fallen on his house, [122];
only twelve years old when Ulysses went to Hades, [133];
his alarm about his property, [135], [136];
did not tip Eteoneus, [150]
Telepylus, a fictitious name, [184]
Temesa, copper mines of, [19]; its people did not speak Greek, [214]
Tennyson, and the Arthurian legends, [123]
Theoclymenus sees the doom that overhangs the suitors and leaves
the house, [86]; his presence in the poem, strange, [201]
Thersites, and Eurybates, [235], [236]
Tholus, the, [17], [95], [98]
Thucydides, and "Phocians of those from Troy," [4], [5], [222], [223];
on the Cyclopes and Læstrygonians, [184]; substantially in
accord with the writer of the Odyssey, [221]; biassed in
favour of the Corfu Drepane rather than the Sicilian Drepanum, [226]
Tiresias, his prophecy, and warning about the cattle of
the Sun, [49], [50], [254], [255], [256]
Toro, grotta del, [167]-[170]
Trapdoor, the, [92]; the way towards was in the corner of the
cloisters near the mixing bowl, [94]
Trapani, what any rival site has got to show before claiming much
consideration, [162]
Trapani and Ægadean islands from Mt. Eryx, sketch of, [178]
Troy, date of its real or supposed fall, [215]-[218]
"ULYSSES," H. Festing Jones's and S. Butler's oratorio, [6]
Ulysses, fastens his chest with a knot that Circe had taught him, [258];
his deep sleep, [173], [253], [254]; upbraids Minerva for not telling
Telemachus about his impending return, [60], [141]; and Argus, [72], [151];
rebukes Amphinomus, [76]; rebukes Eurymachus, [78];
he and Telemachus remove the armour, [79], [155];
his brooch, [80], [227]; having his feet washed by Euryclea, [81], [152];
compared to a paunch cooking before a fire, [83], [153];
his bedroom, surmise that the maids were hanged all round it, [98];
interview with Laertes in the garden, [101], [102];
eating with Dolius, [102], [155];
his farewell speeches to the Phæacians, and to Queen Arete, [108];
his main grievance a money one, [109]; he, Alcinous, Menelaus and
Nestor, all drawn from the same person, [115]; always thankless, [150];
why not allowed to see either Favognana or the Scherian coast,
[188], [197], [198]; house of, and that of Alcinous, [205], [206]
Unconscious, examples of, [236], [237], [238], [239]
Ustica, as the island of Æolus, [183]
VAULTED room, the, [17], [95], [98]
Virgil, and Æneas in Hades, [113]; gives the Cyclopes only one eye, [191];
and Drepanum, [224]
WALL, the Iliadic, date of, [217], [218]
Wandering cliffs, the, [53], [51], [55], [196]
Wolf, his theory baseless and mischievous [2], [3]
Woman and man, never fully understand one another, [105];
can caricature each other, but not draw, [106]
Women, single, will not have a man in the house if they can help it, [107];
in Hades, the writer's attitude towards, [110], [111];
treatment of the guilty, in the house of Ulysses, [117]-[119]
World, its greatest men know little of the, [267]
YORK, the Duke of, and his marriage, [108]
Young people, apt to be thoughtless, [37], [116]
ZIMMERN, Miss Helen, [ix.]
Zummari, la Caletta dei, [195]