Beschreibung:
Analysing in detail ancient Greek culture and society, Gladstone achieves his aim 'to promote and extend' the study of Homer.
Part I. Agore, or the Polities of the Homeric Age; Part II. Ilios, the Trojans Compared and Contrasted with the Greeks; Part III. Thalassa, the Outer Geography of the Odyssey; Part IV. Aoidos: 1. On the plot of the Iliad; 2. The sense of beauty in Homer; 3. Homer's perception and use of number; 4. Homer's perception and use of colour; 5. Homer and some of his successors in epic poetry; 6. Some principal Homeric characters in Troy; 7. The declension of the great Homeric characters in the later tradition.