The Authoress of the Odyssey: Contents

CHAPTER I
IMPORTANCE OF THE ENQUIRY—THE STEPS WHEREBY I WAS LED TO MY CONCLUSIONS—THE MULTITUDE OF EARLY GREEK POETESSES REMOVES ANY à priori DIFFICULTY—THE MUSES AND MINERVA AS HEADS OF LITERATURE—MAN, RATHER THAN WOMAN, THE INTERLOPER Page		1

CHAPTER II
THE STORY OF THE ODYSSEY		14
Book i.	The council of the gods—Telemachus and the suitors in the house of Ulysses	18
Book ii.	Assembly of the people of Ithaca—Telemachus starts for Pylos	21
Book iii.	Telemachus at the house of Nestor	23
Book iv.	Telemachus at the house of Menelaus—The suitors resolve to lie in wait for him as he returns, and murder him	24
Book v.	Ulysses in the island of Calypso—He leaves the island on a raft, and after great suffering reaches the land of the Phæacians	28
Book vi.	The meeting between Ulysses and Nausicaa	30
Book vii.	The splendours of the house of King Alcinous—Queen Arete wants to know how Ulysses got his shirt and cloak, for she knows them as her own work. Ulysses explains	34
Book viii.	The Phæacian games and banquet in honour of Ulysses	37
Book ix.	The voyages of Ulysses—The Cicons, Lotus-eaters, and the Cyclops Polyphemus	41
Book x.	Æolus—The Læstrygonians—Circe	46
Book xi.	Ulysses in the house of Hades	49
Book xii.	The Sirens—Scylla and Charybdis—The cattle of the Sun	53
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Book xiii.	Ulysses is taken back to Ithaca by the Phæacians Page	57
Book xiv.	Ulysses in the hut of Eumæus	60
Book xv.	Telemachus returns from Pylos, and on landing goes to the hut of Eumæus	63
Book xvi.	Ulysses and Telemachus become known to one another	66
Book xvii.	Telemachus goes to the town, and is followed by Eumæus and Ulysses, who is maltreated by the suitors	70
Book xviii.	The fight between Ulysses and Irus—The suitors make presents to Penelope—and ill-treat Ulysses	75
Book xix.	Ulysses converses with Penelope, and is recognised by Euryclea	78
Book xx.	Ulysses converses with Eumæus, and with his herdsman Philœtius—The suitors again maltreat him—Theoclymenus foretells their doom and leaves the house	83
Book xxi.	The trial of the bow and of the axes	87
Book xxii.	The killing of the suitors	90
Book xxiii.	Penelope comes down to see Ulysses, and being at last convinced that he is her husband, retires with him to their own old room—In the morning Ulysses, Telemachus, Philœtius, and Eumæus go to the house of Laertes	96
Book xxiv.	The Ghosts of the suitors in Hades—Ulysses sees his father—is attacked by the friends of the suitors—Laertes kills Eupeithes—Peace is made between him and the people of Ithaca	99

CHAPTER III
THE PREPONDERANCE OF WOMAN IN THE ODYSSEY		105

CHAPTER IV
JEALOUSY FOR THE HONOUR AND DIGNITY OF WOMAN—SEVERITY AGAINST THOSE WHO HAVE DISGRACED THEIR SEX—LOVE OF SMALL RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES—OF PREACHING—OF WHITE LIES AND SMALL PLAY-ACTING—OF HAVING THINGS BOTH WAYS—AND OF MONEY		115
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CHAPTER V
ON THE QUESTION WHETHER OR NO PENELOPE IS BEING WHITEWASHED Page		125

CHAPTER VI
FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE CHARACTER OF PENELOPE—THE JOURNEY OF TELEMACHUS TO LACEDÆMON		134

CHAPTER VII
FURTHER INDICATIONS THAT THE WRITER IS A WOMAN—YOUNG, HEADSTRONG, AND UNMARRIED		142

CHAPTER VIII
THAT ITHACA AND SCHERIA ARE BOTH OF THEM DRAWN FROM TRAPANI AND ITS IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD		158

CHAPTER IX
THE IONIAN AND THE ÆGADEAN ISLANDS—THE VOYAGES OF ULYSSES SHOWN TO BE PRACTICALLY A SAIL ROUND SICILY FROM TRAPANI TO TRAPANI		174

CHAPTER X
FURTHER DETAILS REGARDING THE VOYAGES OF ULYSSES, TO CONFIRM THE VIEW THAT THEY WERE A SAIL ROUND SICILY, BEGINNING AND ENDING WITH MT. ERYX AND TRAPANI		188

CHAPTER XI
WHO WAS THE WRITER?		200

CHAPTER XII
THE DATE OF THE POEM, AND A COMPARISON OF THE STATE OF THE NORTH WESTERN PART OF SICILY AS REVEALED TO US IN THE ODYSSEY, WITH THE ACCOUNT GIVEN BY THUCYDIDES OF THE SAME TERRITORY IN THE EARLIEST KNOWN TIMES		210

CHAPTER XIII
FURTHER EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF AN EARLY IONIAN SETTLEMENT AT OR CLOSE TO TRAPANI		225
p. xvii

CHAPTER XIV
THAT THE ILIAD WHICH THE WRITER OF THE ODYSSEY KNEW WAS THE SAME AS WHAT WE NOW HAVE Page		232

CHAPTER XV
THE ODYSSEY IN ITS RELATION TO THE OTHER POEMS OF THE TROJAN CYCLE, AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN THE HANDS OF THE AUTHORESS		249

CHAPTER XVI
CONCLUSION		262

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FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE CHARACTER OF PENELOPE—THE JOURNEY OF TELEMACHUS TO LACEDÆMON

FURTHER INDICATIONS THAT THE WRITER IS A WOMAN—YOUNG, HEADSTRONG, AND UNMARRIED

THAT ITHACA AND SCHERIA ARE BOTH OF THEM DRAWN FROM TRAPANI AND ITS IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD

THE IONIAN AND THE ÆGADEAN ISLANDS—THE VOYAGES OF ULYSSES SHOWN TO BE PRACTICALLY A SAIL ROUND SICILY FROM TRAPANI TO TRAPANI

FURTHER DETAILS REGARDING THE VOYAGES OF ULYSSES, TO CONFIRM THE VIEW THAT THEY WERE A SAIL ROUND SICILY, BEGINNING AND ENDING WITH MT. ERYX AND TRAPANI

THE DATE OF THE POEM, AND A COMPARISON OF THE STATE OF THE NORTH WESTERN PART OF SICILY AS REVEALED TO US IN THE ODYSSEY, WITH THE ACCOUNT GIVEN BY THUCYDIDES OF THE SAME TERRITORY IN THE EARLIEST KNOWN TIMES

FURTHER EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF AN EARLY IONIAN SETTLEMENT AT OR CLOSE TO TRAPANI

THAT THE ILIAD WHICH THE WRITER OF THE ODYSSEY KNEW WAS THE SAME AS WHAT WE NOW HAVE Page

THE ODYSSEY IN ITS RELATION TO THE OTHER POEMS OF THE TROJAN CYCLE, AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN THE HANDS OF THE AUTHORESS

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