Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Volume 2, Olympus: or, The Religion of the Homeric Age

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 2 presents an exhaustive study of the 'Theo-mythology', religious traditions and sources, and morals of Homer's age. 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 1 establishes Homer's contemporary relevance and provides an extensive 'ethnography of Greek races' related to Homer's works THE CONTENTS......Page 10 OLYMPUS, OR THE RELIGION OF THE HOMERIC AGE......Page 20 SECT. II. The traditive Element of the Homeric Theo-mythology......Page 58 SECT. III. The inventive Element of the Homeric Theo-mythology......Page 192 SECT. IV. The Composition of the Olympian Court: and the Classification of the whole Supernatural Order in Homer......Page 290 SECT. V. The Olympian Community and its Members, considered in themselves......Page 343 SECT. VI. The Olympian Community and its Members, considered in their influence on human society and conduct......Page 386 SECT. VII. On the traces of an origin abroad for the Olympian Religion......Page 416 SECT. VIII. The Morals of the Homeric Age......Page 436 SECT. IX. Woman in the Homeric age......Page 498 SECT. X. The office of the Homeric Poems in relation to that of the early Books of Holy Scripture......Page 540 THE CONTENTS 10 OLYMPUS, OR THE RELIGION OF THE HOMERIC AGE 20 SECT. II. The traditive Element of the Homeric Theo-mythology 58 SECT. III. The inventive Element of the Homeric Theo-mythology 192 SECT. IV. The Composition of the Olympian Court: and the Classification of the whole Supernatural Order in Homer 290 SECT. V. The Olympian Community and its Members, considered in themselves 343 SECT. VI. The Olympian Community and its Members, considered in their influence on human society and conduct 386 SECT. VII. On the traces of an origin abroad for the Olympian Religion 416 SECT. VIII. The Morals of the Homeric Age 436 SECT. IX. Woman in the Homeric age 498 SECT. X. The office of the Homeric Poems in relation to that of the early Books of Holy Scripture 540 9781108012058 Cambridge University PresS v. 1. I. Prolegomena. II. Achaeis: or, The Ethnology of the Greek Races v. 2. Olympus; or, The religion of the Homeric Age v. 3. I. Agore ; II. Ilios; III. Thalassa; IV. Aoidos.