Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age 1st Edition by William Ewart Gladstone ISBN 9781108012041 1108012043

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Author: William Ewart Gladstone
Four-time prime minister William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) was also a prolific author and enthusiastic scholar of the classics. Gladstone had spent almost two decades in politics prior to his writing the three-volume Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age. This work and the preceding ‘On the place of Homer in classical education and in historical inquiry’ (1857), reflect Gladstone’s interest in the Iliad and the Odyssey, which he read with increasing frequency from the 1830s onward and which he viewed as particularly relevant to modern society. As he relates, he has two objects in the Studies: ‘to promote and extend’ the study of Homer’s ‘immortal poems’ and ‘to vindicate for them … their just degree both of absolute and, more especially, of relative critical value’. Volume 3 examines Greek polities of this period before returning to the poems themselves, their plots, characters and the beauty of their language.

Table of contents: 

SECT. I.

On the State of the Homeric Question.

Objects of this Work

Results thus far of the Homeric Controversy

Improved apparatus for the Study of Homer

Effect of the poems on Civilization…

They do not compete with the Holy Scriptures

SECT. II.

The Place of Homer in Classical Education.

Study of Homer in the English Universities..

Homer should not be studied as a Poet only.

His claims compared with those of other Poets

Study of Homer in the Public Schools

SECT. III.

On the Historic Aims of Homer.

High organization of the Poems.

The presumption is that the Poet had Historie aims

Positive signs of them

Pursued even at some cost of Poetical beauty

Minuter indications

General tone

Hypothesis of reproduction inadmissible

What is chiefly meant by his Historic aims

SECT. IV.

On the probable Date of Homer.

The main question: is he an original witness

Adverse arguments

Affirmative arguments.

SECT. V.

The probable Trustworthiness of the Text of Homer.

The received text to be adopted as a basis

Failure of other methods

State of the Manuscripts

Complaints of interpolation

Testimonies concerning the early use of the Poems

Preservative power of the Recitations or matches

Pseudo-Homeric poems.

Argument from the Cyclic poems.

The Alexandrian period…

Amount and quality of guarantees

Improbability of wilful falsification

Internal evidence of soundness in detail

SECT. VI.

Place and Authority of Homer in Historical Inquiry.

Homer paramount as a literary authority

He has suffered through credulity

And through incredulity

Proposed method of treatment

Instances of contrary method, (1) Hellen and his family

Authority of Hesiod

Instance (2), personality of Helen

Conclusion

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