Homer and his Age
by Andrew Lang
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About this eBook
- Author
- Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
- Title
- Homer and His Age
- Credits
- Produced by David Moynihan, Lee Dawei, Miranda van de Heijning, David Widger, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature
- Subject
- Civilization, Homeric
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 7972
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7972
- Release Date
- April 1, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.HOMER AND HIS AGE
- 2.By Andrew Lang — To R. W. RAPER IN ALL GRATITUDE
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.DETAILED CONTENTS:
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (not available in this file): — ALGONQUINS UNDER SHIELD — THE VASE OF ARISTONOTHOS — DAGGER WITH LION-HUNTERS — RINGS: SWORDS AND SHIELDS — FRAGMENTS OF WARRIOR VASE — FRAGMENT OF SIEGE VASE — ALGONQUIN CORSLET — GOLD CORSLET
- 6.CHAPTER I — THE HOMERIC AGE
- 7.CHAPTER II — HYPOTHESES AS TO THE GROWTH OF THE EPICS
- 8.CHAPTER III — HYPOTHESES OF EPIC COMPOSITION — THE LEGEND OF THE MAKING OF THE "ILIAD" UNDER PISISTRATOS
- 9.CHAPTER IV — LOOSE FEUDALISM: THE OVER-LORD IN "ILIAD," BOOKS I. AND II.
- 10.CHAPTER V — AGAMEMNON IN THE LATER "ILIAD"
- 11.CHAPTER VI — ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE "ILIAD". BURIAL AND CREMATION
- 12.CHAPTER VII — HOMERIC ARMOUR
- 13.CHAPTER VIII — THE BREASTPLATE
- 14.CHAPTER IX — BRONZE AND IRON
- 15.CHAPTER X — THE HOMERIC HOUSE
- 16.CHAPTER XI
- 17.NOTES OF CHANGE IN THE "ODYSSEY"
- 18.CHAPTER XII — LINGUISTIC PROOFS OF VARIOUS DATES
- 19.CHAPTER XIII — THE "DOLONEIA" — "ILIAD," BOOK X.
- 20.CHAPTER XIV — THE INTERPOLATIONS OF NESTOR
- 21.CHAPTER XV — THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EARLY EPICS
- 22.CHAPTER XVI — HOMER AND THE FRENCH MEDIAEVAL EPICS
- 23.CHAPTER XVII
- 24.CONCLUSION
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