Studies on Homer And The Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3
by W. E. Gladstone
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About this eBook
- Author
- Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898
- Title
- Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3 Olympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric Age
- Credits
- Produced by Henry Flower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature
- Subject
- Civilization, Homeric
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 49858
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49858
- Release Date
- September 2, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.STUDIES ON HOMER AND THE HOMERIC AGE.
- 2.THE CONTENTS.
- 3.SECT. I. On the Mixed Character of the Supernatural System, or Theo-Mythology, of Homer.
- 4.SECT. II. The traditive Element of the Homeric Theo-mythology.
- 5.SECT. III. The inventive Element of the Homeric Theo-mythology. — Jupiter. — Juno. — Neptune. — Aidoneus. — Demeter, or Ceres. — Persephone. — Mars. — Mercury. — Venus. — Vulcan. — Ἠέλιος , or the Sun. — Dionysus or Bacchus.
- 6.SECT. IV. The Composition of the Olympian Court: and the Classification of the whole Supernatural Order in Homer.
- 7.SECT. V. The Olympian Community and its Members, considered in themselves.
- 8.SECT. VI. The Olympian Community and its Members, considered in their influence on human society and conduct.
- 9.SECT. VII. On the traces of an origin abroad for the Olympian Religion.
- 10.SECT. VIII. The Morals of the Homeric Age.
- 11.SECT. IX. Woman in the Homeric age.
- 12.SECT. X. The office of the Homeric Poems in relation to that of the early Books of Holy Scripture. — FOOTNOTES — Transcriber's Note
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