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CONTENTS,

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS…………………………………… Pag© I

CHAPTER I.

DIVISION^OP THE SUBJECT. ……………………………….. 14

CHAPTER II.

FIRST OR MYTHICAL PERIOD.——THE LINUS.——PAEANS.——THE THRENUS AND HY-MEN^EUS.——EARLY BARDS.——ANCIENT THRACIAN MINSTRELS ………. 15

CHAPTER III.

SECOND OR POETICAL PERIOD.——INTRODUCTORY REMARKS …………. 24

CHAPTER IV.

SECOND OR POETICAL PERIOD CONTINUED.——HOMER.——PERSONAL HISTORY.—— PRODUCTIONS.——ILIAD.——ODYSSEY ………….._……………. 26

CHAPTER V.

SECOND OR POETICAL PERIOD CONTINUED.——HOMERIC CONTROVERSY.——WOLF’S ARGUMENTS.——ANSWERS TO WOLF’s ARGUMENTS.——MULLER ON THE UNITY

OF THE ILIAD.—— UNITY OF THE ODYSSEY. —— NITZSCH’s DIVISION OF THE ODYSSEY …………………………………………… 31

CHAPTER VI.

SECOND OR POETICAL PERIOD CONTINUED.——PROOF FROM INTERNAL EVIDENCE THAT THE HOMERIC POEMS ARE THE WORK OF ONE AUTHOR.——GENERAL SIMILARITY OF STYLE, TASTE, AND FEELING.——CONSISTENCY IN THE CHAR­ACTERS. ……………………………………………. 39

CHAPTER VII.

SECOND OR POETICAL PERIOD CONTINUED.——HOMERIC INTERPOLATIONS.—— RHAPSODISTS. —— COLLECTION OF THE HOMERIC POEMS ASCRIBED TO PISIS-TRATUS ……………………………………………. 44

CHAPTER VIII.

SECOND OR POETICAL PERIOD CONTINUED.——GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE HO­MERIC QUESTION……………………………………… 49

CHAPTER IX.

SECOND OR POETICAL PERIOD CONTINUED.——HOMERIC HYMNS AND MINOR POEMS …………………………………………….. 51