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STUDIES ON HOMER
AND
THE HOMERIC AGE.

BY THE
RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, D.C.L.
M. P. FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.

Plenius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore.—Horace.

OXFORD:
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
M.DCCC.LVIII.

[The right of Translation is reserved.]

STUDIES ON HOMER
AND
THE HOMERIC AGE.
I. PROLEGOMENA.
II. ACHÆIS:
OR,
THE ETHNOLOGY OF THE GREEK RACES.

BY THE
RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, D.C.L.
M. P. FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Plenius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore.—Horace.

OXFORD:
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
M.DCCC.LVIII.

THE CONTENTS.

I. PROLEGOMENA.
SECT. I.
On the State of the Homeric Question.
Objects of this Work	Page 1
Results thus far of the Homeric Controversy	2
Improved apparatus for the Study of Homer	4
Effect of the poems on Civilization	5
They do not compete with the Holy Scriptures	6
SECT. II.
The Place of Homer in Classical Education.
Study of Homer in the English Universities	9
Homer should not be studied as a Poet only	11
His claims compared with those of other Poets	14
Study of Homer in the Public Schools	18
SECT. III.
On the Historic Aims of Homer.
High organization of the Poems	21
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