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Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3 / Olympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric Age

Chapter 25: Transcriber's Note
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The author analyzes the religious world reflected in the Homeric poems, arguing that Homeric belief combines a declining theological tradition with active myth-making. He identifies vestiges of primitive providential ideas alongside newly formed Olympian personifications, traces channels of religious tradition and possible echoes of ancient messianic motifs, and examines key deities—especially Athena and Apollo—their attributes, precedence, and juridical powers. Attention is given to sacrificial practice, the progression from unified theism toward polytheism and nature-worship, the poet’s inventive role, and the social and moral order implied by divine interactions, reconstructed through comparative, philological, and interpretive evidence.


Transcriber's Note

Page headers in the printed book have been converted to sidenotes.

The following apparent errors have been corrected:

  • p. xiv "sovereignity" changed to "sovereignty"
  • p. 42 (note) "vii-x." changed to "vii.-x."
  • p. 79 "unequivocially" changed to "unequivocally"
  • p. 118 "insolence:" changed to "insolence:’"
  • p. 165 "ὤλετό" changed to "ὤλετο"
  • p. 173 "attention," changed to "attention."
  • p. 192 "exemplfied" changed to "exemplified"
  • p. 277 "order" changed to "order."
  • p. 285 "Hom Theol." changed to "Hom. Theol."
  • p. 288 "Ganymed" changed to "Ganymede"
  • p. 291 "ἀῖσα" changed to "αἶσα"
  • p. 299 "peoples," changed to "peoples"
  • p. 320 "ῥεία" changed to "ῥεῖα"
  • p. 328 in "disaffection has yet been exhibited.[607]", the footnote anchor has been added to the text.
  • p. 336 "ῥεία" changed to "ῥεῖα"
  • p. 352 "subject so" changed to "subject to"
  • p. 354 "2." changed to "(2.)"
  • p. 356 "δὲ" changed to "δέ"
  • p. 364 "it sessential" changed to "its essential"
  • p. 365 in "νόον ἔτραπεν[711].", the footnote anchor has been added to the text.
  • p. 377 "purity, of" changed to "of purity,"
  • p. 383 (note) "264" changed to "264."
  • p. 403 (note) "Romische" changed to "Römische"
  • p. 404 "elswehere" changed to "elsewhere"
  • p. 410 "devolopment" changed to "development"
  • p. 420 "ἔσθλος" changed to "ἐσθλὸς"
  • p. 426 "morality." changed to "morality,"
  • p. 436 "ἀτὴ" changed to "ἄτη"
  • p. 460 "Ἕρως" changed to "Ἔρως"
  • p. 474 "ἔγω" changed to "ἐγὼ"
  • p. 494 in "Ajax had a spurious brother", a footnote anchor has been removed from the text.
  • p. 499 (note) "in excellently" changed to "is excellently"
  • p. 505 "φρέσι" changed to "φρεσὶ"
  • p. 517 "ἔγωγε" changed to "ἐγώγε"

The following are used inconsistently in the book:

  • aftertimes and after-times
  • battlefield and battle-field
  • bowstring and bow-string
  • cupbearer and cup-bearer
  • dependence and dependance
  • Dî and Dii
  • Dioscuri and Dioscouroi
  • Erinuës and Erinues
  • fountainhead and fountain-head
  • Histie and Hestie
  • i. e. and i.e.
  • indoor and in-door
  • preeminence and pre-eminence
  • reestablished and re-established
  • stepmother and step-mother
  • synonym and synonyme
  • Theomythology and Theo-mythology