The World of Homer

THE WORLD OF HOMER by ANDREW LANG With Illustrations Longmans, Green, and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London New York, Bombay, and Calcutta 1910 [Illustration: Moulded Pithos from Sparta. Illustrates 7th-6th Century Armour, with Thigh-Piece From _British School at Athens_, vol. xii. (_Macmillan Co. Ltd_.)] PREFACE In 1895 I published _Homer and the Epic_ (pp. 424), containing a criticism of Wolf's theory, if theory it can be called, which is the mother of modern Homeric criticism. I analysed, book by book, the _Iliad_ and the _Odyssey_, observing on the modern ideas of interpolation and the modern objections to many scores of passages which, as a rule, I defended from charges of "lateness" and i…

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