The World of Homer
by Andrew Lang
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About this eBook
- Author
- Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Marc D'Hooghe ( www.freeliterature.org) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature
- Subject
- Homer -- Criticism and interpretation
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 45896
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45896
- Release Date
- June 6, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE WORLD OF HOMER — BY
- 2.ANDREW LANG — WITH ILLUSTRATIONS — PREFACE — CONTENTS — THE WORLD OF HOMER — CHAPTER I — HOMER'S WORLD. THE FOUR AGES — CHAPTER II — HOMERIC LANDS AND PEOPLES — CHAPTER III — HOMERIC POLITY. THE OVER LORD — CHAPTER IV — HOMER'S WORLD IN PEACE — CHAPTER V — MEN AND WOMEN — CHAPTER VI — THE HOMERIC WORLD IN WAR — CHAPTER VII — HOMERIC TACTICS — CHAPTER VIII — MEN'S DRESS IN HOMER. ARMOUR. — CHAPTER IX — WOMEN'S COSTUME — CHAPTER X — BRONZE AND IRON. WEAPONS AND TOOLS — CHAPTER XI — BURIAL AND THE FUTURE LIFE — CHAPTER XII — RELIGION IN GREECE: PRE-HISTORIC, HOMERIC, AND HISTORICAL — CHAPTER XIII — TEMPLES. ALTARS. RITUAL. PURIFICATION — CHAPTER XIV — HOMER AND IONIA — Who were the Ionians ? — CHAPTER XV — ATTIC versus ACHAEAN TRADITIONS — CHAPTER XVI — HOMER AND "THE SAGA" — CHAPTER XVII — THE STORY OF PALAMEDES — CHAPTER XVIII — HOMER AND THE CYCLIC POEMS — CHAPTER XIX — THE GREAT DISCREPANCIES — CHAPTER XX — CONCLUSIONS — APPENDIX A — THE CATALOGUE — APPENDIX B — THE ALLEGED ATHENIAN RECENSION OF HOMER — APPENDIX D — THE LOST EPICS AND THE HOMERIC EPICS ( WIEDERHOLUNGEN )
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