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Samuel Butler. The Authoress of the Odyssey
The Authoress of the Odyssey
Table of Contents
PREFACE
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
THE AUTHORESS OF THE ODYSSEY
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II. THE STORY OF THE ODYSSEY
THE STORY OF THE ODYSSEY. BOOK I
BOOK II
BOOK III
BOOK IV
BOOK V
BOOK VI
BOOK VII
BOOK VIII
BOOK IX
BOOK X
BOOK XI
BOOK XII
BOOK XIII
BOOK XIV
BOOK XV
BOOK XVI
BOOK XVII
BOOK XVIII
BOOK XIX
BOOK XX
BOOK XXI
BOOK XXII
BOOK XXIII
BOOK XXIV
CHAPTER III. THE PREPONDERANCE OF WOMAN IN THE ODYSSEY
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V. ON THE QUESTION WHETHER OR NO PENELOPE IS BEING WHITEWASHED
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI. WHO WAS THE WRITER?
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI. CONCLUSION
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Samuel Butler
Where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under her hands
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How came so great a man as Bentley not to see what is so obvious? Truly, as has been said by Mr. Gladstone, if Homer is old, the systematic and comprehensive study of him is still young.[3]
It is an old saying that no man can do better for another than he can for himself, I may perhaps therefore best succeed in convincing the reader if I retrace the steps by which I arrived at the conclusions I ask him to adopt.
