The Authoress of the Odyssey: Page Index

Preface

Contents

List of Illustrations

Chapter I. Importance of the Enquiry

Introduction

Book I. The Council of the Gods

Book II. Assembly of the People of Ithaca

Book III. Telemachus at the House of Nestor

Book IV. Telemachus at the House of Menelaus

Book V. Ulysses in the Island of Calypso

Book VI. The Meeting Between Ulysses and Nausicaa

Book VII. The Splendours of the House of King Alcinous

Book VIII. The Phæacian Games

Book IX. The Voyages of Ulysses: Cicons, Lotus Eaters, and the Cyclops

Book X. Æolus, Læstrygonians, Circe

Book XI. Ulysses in the House of Hades

Book XII. The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, The Cattle of the Sun

Book XIII. Ulysses is Taken Back to Ithaca

Book XIV. Ulysses in the Hut of Eumæus

Book XV. Telemachus Returns

Book XVI. Ulysses and Telemachus Become Known to One Another

Book XVII. Ulysses Maltreated by the Suitors

Book XVIII. The Fight Between Ulysses and Irus

Book XIX. Ulysses Converses with Penelope

Book XX. Theoclymenus Foretells the Suitors' Doom

Book XXI. The Trial of the Bow and of the Axes

Book XXII. The Killing of the Suitors

Book XXIII. Penelope Recognizes Ulysses

Book XXIV. The Suitors in Hades, Ulysses Makes Peace with Ithaca.

Chapter III. The Preponderance of Woman in the Odyssey

Chapter IV. Jealousy for the Honour and Dignity of Woman

Chapter V. Whether Penelope is Being Whitewashed

Chapter VI. The Character of Penelope, The Journey of Telemachus

Chapter VII. Further Indications That the Writer Is a Young, Headstrong, and Unmarried Woman

Chapter VIII. Ithaca and Scheria Are Drawn From Trapani

Chapter IX. The Voyages of Ulysses Shown to be a Sail Round Sicily

Chapter X. Further Details Regarding the Voyages of Ulysses

Chapter XI. Who Was the Writer?

Chapter XII. The Date Of The Poem

Chapter XIII. Further Evidence in Support of an Early Ionian Settlement at Trapani

Chapter XIV. That the Iliad Which the Writer of the Odyssey Knew Was the Same As What We Now Have

Chapter XV. Relation to other Poems of the Trojan Cycle and its Development by the Authoress

Chapter XVI. Conclusion

Index