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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. III.
Plenius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore.—Horace.
OXFORD:
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
M.DCCC.LVIII.
[The right of Translation is reserved.]
STUDIES ON HOMER
AND
THE HOMERIC AGE.
I. AGORÈ:
POLITIES OF THE HOMERIC AGE.
II. ILIOS:
TROJANS AND GREEKS COMPARED.
III. THALASSA:
THE OUTER GEOGRAPHY.
IV. AOIDOS:
SOME POINTS OF THE POETRY OF HOMER.
BY THE
RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, D.C.L.
M. P. FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.
Plenius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore.—Horace.
OXFORD:
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
M.DCCC.LVIII.
[The right of Translation is reserved.]
ADVERTISEMENT.
Since the Sections which relate to Ethnology passed through thePress, the First Volume of Mr. Rawlinson’s Herodotus has appeared.Earlier possession of this important Publication would have emboldenedme to proceed a step further in the attempt to specify theprobable or possible form of the original Ethnic relation betweenthe Pelasgians and the Hellenes of the Greek Peninsula, but designatingthe latter as pure Arian, and the former as Arian, with aresidue or mixture of Turanian elements.
It has also been since the ‘Olympus’ was printed, that I havebecome acquainted with Welcker’s recent and unfinished ‘GriechischeGötterlehre,’ (Göttingen, 1857.) I could have wished to refer to itat various points, and especially to avail myself of the clearer view,which the learned Author has given, of the position of Κρόνος.
Founding himself in part on the exclusive appropriation byHomer of the term Κρονίδης to Jupiter, he enables us to see howJupiter may have inherited the sole use of the title as being ‘theAncient of days;’ and how Κρόνος was a formation in the Mythologywholly secondary and posterior to his reputed son. (Welcker, sectt.27, 8. pp. 140-7.)
Another recent book, M. Alfred Maury’s Histoire des Religions dela Grèce Antique,