Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age

Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age are a comprehensive 3-volume work that features the history of the ancient Greek literature, focusing on the Homeric Question - concerning by whom, when, where and under what circumstances the Iliad and Odyssey, its foundational works, were composed.
Contents:
Prolegomena:
On the State of the Homeric Question
The Place of Homer in Classical Education
On the Historic Aims of Homer
On the Probable Date of Homer
The Probable Trustworthiness of the Text of Homer
Place and Authority of Homer in Historical Inquiry
Achæis - Ethnology of the Greek Races:
Scope of the Inquiry
On the Pelasgians, and Cognate Races
The Pelasgians: and Certain States Naturalized or Akin to Greece
On the Ph?nicians and the Outer Geography of the Odyssey
On the Catalogue
On the Hellenes of Homer
On the Respective Contributions of the Pelasgian and Hellenic Factors to the Compound of the Greek Nation
On the Three Greater Homeric Appellatives
On the Homeric Title of ???? ??????
On the Connection of the Hellenes and Achæans With the East
Olympus or the Religion of the Homeric Age:
On the Mixed Character of the Supernatural System, or Theo-mythology of Homer
The Traditive Element of the Homeric Theo-mythology
The Inventive Element of the Homeric Theo-mythology
The Composition of the Olympian Court; and the Classification of the Whole Supernatural Order in Homer
The Olympian Community and Its Members Considered in Themselves
The Olympian Community and Its Members Considered in Their Influence on Human Society and Conduct
On the Traces of an Origin Abroad for the Olympian Religion
The Morals of the Homeric Age
Woman in the Heroic Age
The Office of the Homeric Poems in Relation to That of the Early Books of Holy Scripture
Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age
Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared
Thalassa: The Outer Geography
Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician who, in a career lasting over 60 years, served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four terms beginning in 1868 and ending in 1894. He also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times, serving over 12 years. Gladstone's own political doctrine - which emphasized equality of opportunity and opposition to trade protectionism - came to be known as Gladstonian liberalism.

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William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician who, in a career lasting over 60 years, served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four terms beginning in 1868 and ending in 1894. He also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times, serving over 12 years. Gladstone's own political doctrine which emphasized equality of opportunity and opposition to trade protectionism came to be known as Gladstonian liberalism.