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Acitrezza, the island of, 43
Æolian-Ionic dialect of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey," 219
Æolus, his island did not move about, 183
Agamemnon, killed in a covered cloister, 18
Alcinous, and Arēte, their family history, 34, 35; proposes that Ulysses should stay and marry Nausicaa, 37; promises to give Ulysses a gold cup, but never gives it, nor yet his talent of gold, 40; tells the Phæacians of Neptune's threat, 41, 58; Alcinous, Ulysses, Menelaus and Nestor, all drawn from the same person, 115
Amber, Sicilian, 260
Amphinomus, Ulysses warns, 76
Anticlea, tradition that she hanged herself, 65; in Hades, on the situation, 132, 133
Antinous, never really wanted to marry Penelope, 91; his death throes and the good meat that was spoiled, 154
Argenteria, the, near Trapani, 230
Argus, Ulysses and, 151
Aristarchus, made most use of the Marseilles edition of "Iliad" and "Odyssey," 219
Armour, removal of the, 155
Art, only interesting in so far as it reveals an artist, 6; the canons of, it is better to be below than above, 267
Arthurian legends, the, and Tennyson, 123
Asinelli, the islet, 189
Athenæum, the author's two letters to the, p. xvii
Atreus, treasury of, 193
Autolycus, an accomplished thief and perjurer, 81
Axe, Calypso's, had a handle, 10
Axes, the, why did not the suitors snatch them up? 153, 154
Balaclava, said to resemble Trapani, 5
Bear, the great, Ulysses told to steer by the, 29, 181, 182, 187, 197
Bentley, saying the "Odyssey" was written for women, 4; not perceiving that the "Odyssey" is of later date than the "Iliad," 5
Biaggini, the late E., ix, 195
Blind, how commentators came to think that Homer was, 7
Brigands, modern, and Cyclopes, 193
Brooch, the, of Ulysses, 80, 227
Butcher and Lang, Messrs., their translation of the "Odyssey," 7
Buttmann, on the Wandering Cliffs, 196
Calypso kept no man-servant, 107; her sailing directions to Ulysses, 181, 182, 187, 197
Catalogues, the Iliadic known to the writer of the "Odyssey," 174, 237
Cave, forms of the word, much more common in "Odyssey" than "Iliad," 194
Caves, the two near the place where Ulysses landed in Ithaca, 165-170
Cave-dwellers near Trapani, 193, 194
Cefalù, megalithic remains at, 185; called Portazza, 185; relays of fresh milk at, 186
Charybdis and the Galofaro, 197
Circe, kept no man-servant, 107; as good a prophet as Tiresias, 149; her house and Eumæus's pig-farm, 195
Clergyman, doctor, carpenter, bard, 152
Clytemnestra, naturally of a good disposition, 24, 116
Coleridge saw no burlesque in the speeches of the players in Hamlet, 259
Collesano, Byzantine (?) remains at, 185
Conturràno and his development since the "Odyssey," 192
Corfu, anciently called Drepane and then Scheria, 225, 226
Cyclopes, and Læstrygonians, one race, 184; the, had two eyes, 191; still near neighbours of the Phæacians, 190; and modern Brigands, as per Mr. Stigand's report in the Times, 193
Cyclops means round-faced asμήλωψ, apple-faced, 190; Parmenides called the moon Cyclops, 190
Dante, the people whom he meets in another world, 112; è un falso idolo, 113
Darknesses, the two most notable of the "Odyssey," 188, 189, 198
Defoe, sends Robinson Crusoe a man, not a woman, 114
Didyme, and the island of the Sirens, 195, 196
Disc, Ulysses throws a, 39, 146
Dobree and Φωκέων, 223
Doerpfeld, Dr., and the Iliadic wall, 217, 218
Dolius, and Ulysses, in the house of Laertes, 102, 156
Door, bedroom at Trapani fastened in the Odyssean manner, 141
Drepane and Drepanum, 225
Dulichium, the most important of the Odyssean islands, 176, 177
Elpenor, and Ulysses in Hades, 110; his strange fall, 195
Elymi, Thucydides on the, 223
Epic cycle, the Trojan books of the, known to the writer of the "Odyssey," 249, 250
Eryx the Sican city on the top of, not abandoned, 221
Eteoneus, only a char-butler, 140
Ethiopians, the, known as stretching all across Africa, 18.
Eubœa, assumed by Alcinous to be more distant from Scheria than Ithaca, 37
Eumæus, a male writer would have killed him, 156; a native of Syracuse, 210-212; perhaps a Greek, 214
Eurybates, why hunched in the shoulders, 235, 236
Euryclea, becomes Eurynome, 74, 76, 79; the price paid for her, a rejoinder to the "Iliad," 143; and Eurynome the same person, 150, 151
Eurymachus, his death throes, and the good meat that was spoiled, 154
Eurymedon, his overthrow, 34, 219, 220
Eurynome, see Euryclea
Ewes, and lambs, the present practice in Sicily, 148
Favognana, derived from Favonius, 180; why Ulysses was not allowed to see, 197, 198
Fielding, his journey to the next world, 113; on Homer, 114
Fifths and Octaves, consecutive, forbidden, 119
Four main lines of the argument, 163
Freeman, Prof., his map of the West coast of Sicily, 176; visited Trapani, 263
Geese, Penelope's dream about the, 82
Genius, an offence, &c., 264; to be stamped out while young, 265
Giacalone-Patti, Prof., ix.
Gladstone, the Right Hon. W. E., his canons as regards the text of "Iliad" and "Odyssey," xi; the "systematic and comprehensive" study of Homer still young, 5, 6; contrasts the "Iliad" and "Odyssey," 106; on Clytemnestra, 117; on the time when Homer wrote, 216
Grammerton and Shrewsbury, 160
Greatheart, Mr., 109
Hades, the writer's attitude towards women, in, 109–112
Harbour, Rheithron, used five times in the "Odyssey," 167; of Trapani, boatmen plying for hire, 172
Hawk, tearing its prey, while still on the wing, 9, 66
Helen, coming down to dinner at the house of Menelaus, 25; mixes Nepenthe in the wine, 26, 144; outside the wooden horse, 144; her penitence for the wrong that Venus had done her, 144; her present of a bridal dress to Telemachus, 150
Heraclidæ, return of, undateable, 215
Hermione, her marriage found more interesting than that of Megapenthes, 136; her marriage interpolated, 137
Hesiod, records a time when iron was not known, 193
Homer, his infinite subtlety, 216; the authoress of the "Odyssey" was angry with him, 247; why the writer of the "Odyssey" let him so severely alone, 250, 251; protest against Introductions to Homer, which include the "Odyssey." 263
Horace, and mediocribus esse poetis, 264
Horse the Trojan, story of the, shows that the Greeks did not know how Troy fell, 217
Hotel, man no use in a, 107
House of Ulysses, the, 16, 17, 18
Hypereia, near the Cyclopes, 31; probable remains of its wall, 190; not completely abandoned, 221
Iacenses, the, 231
Iakin, the coin, and the British Museum catalogue of Sicilian coins, 227, 228
Ιακὀς, means Ionian, 213
"Iliad," catalogues of the, 174; date of, 215-219; the, refers to no event known to have been later than B.C. 1100, 218
Ingroia, Cav. Prof. of Calatafimi, ix
Invention, not the authoress's strong point, 202-204
Ionian Settlements on East Sicilian shores, 213
Irus, and Iris, 116
Ismarus, and its wine, 180
Italia, and Œnotria, 184
Ithaca, drawn from Trapani and its neighbourhood, 165 drawn from the island of Marettimo as well as from Trapani, 172; "all highest up in the sea," sketch of, 178
Jebb, Prof., the 1892 edition of his Introduction to Homer, xviii; his Introduction to Homer, 3; his quotation from Bentley, 4; on Bentley's not seeing that the "Odyssey" was of later date than the "Iliad," 5; on the house of Ulysses, 15, 16; and the date of the "Odyssey," 210; mentioned, 219, 233, 234, 249, 252
Jews, their prayers, for men and for women, 114
Jones, H. Festing, xxi; his, and the author's, joint oratorio Ulysses, 6; mentioned, 169, 186, 193
Kirchhoff, on the first 87 lines of "Od." i., 252
Laertes, why he left off calling on Penelope and coming to town, 131; not poor, 132
Læstrygonians, derivation of the word, and lastricare, 184; and Cyclopes one race, 184; their relays of fresh milk, 184
Lambs, living on two pulls a day at a milked ewe, 9, 44; and ewes-the present practice, 148
Lang, Mr. Andrew, on the house of Ulysses, 15, 16
Latin names, the use of for Greek gods and heroes defended, xi, p. xii, xiii
Layard, Sir H., visited Trapani, 263
List of points necessary for the identification of Scheria, 158, 159
Lubbock, Sir John, his hundred books, 113
Lucian, the most ungallant of all, 113
Magistrate, a hungry, Ulysses compared to, 56, 150
Malconsiglio, legends concerning, 165
Malta, not Calypso's island, 181, 187
Man, and woman, never fully understand one another, 105; can caricature each other, but not draw, 106
Marettimo, the island, had a wall all round it, 194
Marseilles, the civic edition of "Iliad" and "Odyssey" used most largely by Aristarchus, 219
Mediocribus esse poetis, &c., 264
Megalithicism, the two kinds of, 193
Megapenthes, only married because his sister was, 138
Melanthius and the store-room, 154, 155
Menelaus, Ulysses, Alcinous, and Nestor, all from the same person, 115; the collapse of his splendour in Book xv., 139; he used to sell wine, 139; his frank bourgeoisie, 139; his fussiness, 139; why made to come back on the day of Ægisthus's funeral feast, 236
Mentor, his name coined from Nestor's, 235
Milk rarely to be had fresh except in the morning in Sicily and S. Italy, 186
Milking ewes, what Sicilian shepherds now do, 148
Minerva, not an easy person to recognise, and had deserted Ulysses for a long time, 59, 257, 258; Ulysses upbraids her for not telling Telemachus about his return, 60; her opinion of Penelope, 134, 135; her singular arrangements for Telemachus, 140; Ulysses remonstrates with her, 141; sending Telemachus a West wind to take him from Ithaca to Pylos, 199; her total absence in Books ix.–xii. apologised for, 257, 258
Mixing-bowl, the, in an angle of the cloisters, 88; Phemius lays his lyre down near the, and near the approach to the trap-door, 94
Motya, 177
Mure, Colonel, on the Phæacian episode, 7, 258; visited Trapani, 263
Narcissus, a cantata by H. Festing Jones, Esq., and the author, 259
Nausicaa, her dream, and going to the wash, 31, 32; her meeting with Ulysses, 32-34; the ill-natured gossip of her fellow townspeople, 33; her farewell to Ulysses, 41; the most probable authoress, 206208
Nepenthe, the order in which its virtues are recorded, 144
Neptune, turns the Phæacian ship into stone, 58
Nestor, Alcinous, Menelaus, and Ulysses, all drawn from the same person, 115
Occasional notes, to show that the writer is a woman, 142-157
"Odyssey," the examples of feminine mistakes, 9; refers to nothing of later date than B.C. 1100, 218
Œnotria, and Italia, 184
Olympia, apparently unknown to the writer, 218
Orsi, Dr., mentioned, 185, 186; and pre-Corinthian cemeteries near Syracuse, 213
ὀρσοθύρα, the, 17, 92; the way towards was in the corner of the cloister, near the mixing-bowl, 94
Pagoto, Signor Giuseppe, 148
Pantellaria, rightly placed as regards Scheria, 187; still a prison-island, 203
Parmenides, calls the moon Cyclops, 190
Penelope, her web, 21, 129; gets presents out of the suitors, 77; scandalous versions of her conduct in ancient writers, 125; she protests too much, 126; did she ever try snubbing or boring, 130; Minerva's opinion of her, 134, 135; and the upset bath, 152; gloating over the luxury of woe, 152; not a satisfactory guardian of the estate, 153; tells her story to Ulysses before Ulysses tells his to her, 157
Perseus, does not rescue Andromeda, 109
Phæacian women, their skill in weaving, and general intelligence, 35
Phæacians, the, making drink offerings to Mercury (covert satire), 36; Ulysses’ farewell to the, 108; a thin disguise for Phocæans, 219; used 50-oared vessels like the Phocæans, 220
Phemius, begs for mercy, 94
Phocæ and Phocæans, 218
Phocæa, an Ionian city surrounded by Æolians, 219
Phocæans, the, used 50-oared vessels, 220; and Phocians, 4, 222, 223
Phœnician quarrymen's marks on walls of Eryx, 192
Phœnicians, the, distrusted, but not much known about Phoenicia, 218
Piacus, 228
Pic-nic, a, to Polyphemus's cave, 147, 148
Pisistratus, accompanies Telemachus to Sparta, 24; does not like crying during dinner, 25; gets no present, 150
Platt, Mr. Arthur, on the house of Ulysses, 15, 16
Poetesses, early Greek, abundant, 11, 12
Policeman, identifying prisoner, 160
Polyphemus, and his cave, drawn from life, 147, 148; his system of milking, 148; his cave still called la grotto di Polifemo, 188; the rocks he threw, Asinelli and Formiche,
[paragraph continues] 189; had two eyes, 191: and Conturràno, 191, 192
Portazza, and Telepylus, 185
Quarry, called Dacinoi, 231
Raft, Ulysses’, 29
Rheithron, the harbour, used five times in "Odyssey," 167
Rudder, the poetess's ideas about a, 9, 10
"Ruler," a two foot, betraying a writer as a woman, 10
Salt works of S. Cusumano, 166
Sappho, and other early Greek poetesses, 11, 12
Sardinian smile, a, 203
Scheria, means Jutland, 31; and Drepane, ancient names of Corfu, 225, 226
Schliemann, visited Trapani, 263
Seals, the intolerable smell of, 144; or Phocæ, malicious allusion to Phocæans, 220
Segesta, later than the "Odyssey," 185
Selborne, Lord, his reminiscences, 172
Servants, like being told to eat and drink, 65
Shelley, on the sweetness of the "Odyssey," 106
Shield of Achilles, the, its genuineness defended, 243-246
Shipwreck, and loss of Ulysses’ ship, 56
Shirt, a clean, Alcinous’ and his sons' views concerning, 145
Shrewsbury, and Grammerton, 160
Sicels, in the "Odyssey," 214-215
Σικανίης, not corrupted into, Σικελίης, 214
Sirens, the, and Didyme, 195, 196
Sleep, the, of Ulysses, 173, 253, 254.
Smyth, Admiral, on the Æolian islands and on Charybdis, 196, 197
Snow, frequent in the "Iliad," but hardly even named in the "Odyssey," 260
Spadaro, Prof., of Marettimo, 194
Sugameli, Signor, p. ix, 166, 169, 230, 231
Suitors, the, how many from each island, 68; they are also the people who were sponging on Alcinous, 122; they cannot be perfect lovers and perfect spongers at the same time, 127; their version of Penelope's conduct, 128, 129
Sun, turnings of the, 211, 212
Sun-god, the, leaving his sheep and cattle in charge of two nymphs, 149
Swallow, Ulysses bowstring sings like a, 90; Minerva flies out to the rafters like a, 154
Syracuse, pre-Corinthian, 211, 212
Tarragona, the walls of, 222
Taygetus range, still roadless, 198
Tedesco, Signor, of Marettimo, 194
Telegony, the, and the "Odyssey," 125
Telemachus, lectured by Minerva, 120; and by Penelope, 121; the two great evils that have fallen on his house, 122; only twelve years old when Ulysses went to Hades, 133; his alarm about his property, 135, 136; did not tip Eteoneus, 150
Telepylus, a fictitious name, 184
Temesa, copper mines of, 19; its people did not speak Greek, 214
Tennyson, and the Arthurian legends, 123
Theoclymenus sees the doom that overhangs the suitors and leaves the house, 86; his presence in the poem, strange, 201
Thersites, and Eurybates, 235, 236
Thucydides, and "Phocians of those from Troy," 4, 5, 222, 223; on the Cyclopes and Læstrygonians, 184; substantially in accord with the writer of the "Odyssey," 221; biassed in favour of the Corfu Drepane rather than the Sicilian Drepanum, 226
Tiresias, his prophecy, and warning about the cattle of the Sun, 49, 50, 254, 255, 256
Trapdoor, the, 92; the way towards was in the corner of the cloisters near the mixing bowl, 94
Trapani, what any rival site has got to show before claiming much consideration, 162
Trapani and Ægadean islands from Mt. Eryx, sketch of, 178
Troy, date of its real or supposed fall, 215-218
Ulysses, H. Festing Jones's, and S. Butler's oratorio, 6
Ulysses, fastens his chest with a knot that Circe had taught him, 258; his deep sleep, 173, 253, 254; upbraids Minerva for not telling Telemachus about his impending return, 60, 141; and Argus, 72, 151; warns Amphinomus, 76; rebukes Eurymachus, 78; he and Telemachus remove the armour, 79, 155; his brooch, 80, 227; having his feet washed by Euryclea, 81, 152; compared to a paunch cooking before a fire, 83, 153; his bedroom, surmise that the maids were hanged all round it, 98; interview with Laertes in the garden, 101, 102; eating with Dolius, 102, 156; his farewell speeches to the Phæacians, and to Queen Arēte, 108; his main grievance a money one, 109; he, Alcinous, Menelaus, and Nestor, all drawn from the same person, x15; always thankless, 150; why not allowed to see either Favognana or the Scherian coast, 188, 197, 198; house of, and that of Alcinous, 205, 206
Unconscious cerebration, examples of, 236, 237, 238, 239
Ustica, as the island of Æolus, 183
Virgil, and Æneas in Hades, 113; gives the Cyclopes only one eye, 191; and Drepanum, 224
Wall, the Iliadic, date of, 217, 218
Wandering cliffs, the, 53, 54, 55, 196
Wolf, his theory baseless and mischievous, 2, 3
Woman and man, never fully understand one another, 105; can caricature each other, but not draw, 106
Women, single, will not have a man in the house if they can help it, 107; in Hades, the writer's attitude towards, 110, 111; treatment of the guilty, in the house of Ulysses, 117-119
World, its greatest men know little of the, 267
York, the Duke of, and his marriage, 108
Young people, apt to be thoughtless, 37, 146
Zimmern, Miss Helen, p. ix
Zummari, la Caletta dei, 195