Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 03 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book XXII THE KILLING OF THE SUITORS. Ulysses tore off his rags, and sprang on the broad pavement, * with his bow and his quiver full of arrows. He shed the arrows on to the ground at his feet and said, "The contest is at an end. I will...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 02 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book XXIII PENELOPE COMES DOWN TO SEE ULYSSES, AND BEING AT LAST CONVINCED THAT HE IS HER HUSBAND, RETIRES WITH HIM TO THEIR OWN OLD ROOM--IN THE MORNING ULYSSES, TELEMACHUS, PHILTIUS, AND EUMUS GO TO THE HOUSE OF LAERTES. Euryclea now...
Chapter Vi. The Character Of Penelope : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. 134 Chapter VI FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE CHARACTER OF PENELOPE--THE JOURNEY OF TELEMACHUS TO LACEDMON. The question whether or no the writer of the "Odyssey" is putting her own construction on grosser versions of Penelope's...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 15 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book X OLUS--THE LSTRYGONIANS--CIRCE. "So we sailed on and reached the island where dwells olus with his wife and family of six sons and six daughters, who live together amid great and continuous plenty. I staid with him a whole month...
Title Page : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], THE AUTHORESS OF THE ODYSSEY WHERE AND WHEN SHE WROTE, WHO SHE WAS, THE USE SHE MADE OF THE ILIAD, AND HOW THE POEM GREW UNDER HER HANDS BY SAMUEL BUTLER AUTHOR OF "EREWHON, LIFE AND HABIT, ALPS AND SANCTUARIES, THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF DR...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Introduction : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. 14 CHAPTER II THE STORY OF THE "ODYSSEY." It will help the reader to follow the arguments by which I shall sustain the female authorship of the "Odyssey," the fact of its being written at Trapani on the west coast of Sicily, and its...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 18 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book VII THE SPLENDOURS OF THE HOUSE OF KING ALCINOUS--QUEEN ARTE WANTS TO KNOW WHERE ULYSSES GOT HIS SHIRT AND CLOAK, FOR SHE KNOWS THEM AS HER OWN WORK--ULYSSES EXPLAINS. WHEN Nausicaa reached home her brothers attended to the wagg...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 06 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book XIX ULYSSES CONVERSES WITH PENELOPE, AND IS RECOGNISED BY EURYCLEA. Ulysses and Telemachus were left alone in the cloister, and Ulysses said, "We must take the armour down from the walls; if the suitors are surprised, say what I told...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 11 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book XIV ULYSSES IN THE HUT OF EUMUS. Ulysses followed a steep path that led from the harbour through the forest and over the top of the mountain, till he reached the hut of Eumus, who was the most thrifty servant he had, and had built...
Chapter X. Further Details Regarding : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. 188 CHAPTER X FURTHER DETAILS REGARDING THE VOYAGES OF ULYSSES, TO CONFIRM THE VIEW THAT THEY WERE MAINLY A SAIL ROUND SICILY, BEGINNING AND ENDING WITH MT. ERYX AND TRAPANI. What I have said in the preceding chapter should be enough...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 10 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. 63 Book XV TELEMACHUS RETURNS FROM PYLOS, AND ON LANDING GOES TO THE HUT OF EUMUS. Minerva now went to Lacedmon and found Telemachus and Pisistratus fast asleep. She appeared to Telemachus in a dream, and told him that he was to return...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 14 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book XI ULYSSES IN THE HOUSE OF HADES. "When we were at the water side we got the lamb and the ewe on board and put out to sea, running all that day before a fair wind which Circe had sent us, and at nightfall entering the deep waters...
Chapter Iv. Jealousy For The Honour And Dignity : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. 115 Chapter IV JEALOUSY FOR THE HONOUR AND DIGNITY OF WOMAN--SEVERITY AGAINST THOSE WHO HAVE DISGRACED THEIR SEX--LOVE OF SMALL RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES--OF PREACHING--OF WHITE LIES AND SMALL PLAY-ACTING--OF HAVING THINGS BOTH WAYS...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 04 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book XXI THE TRIAL OF THE BOW AND OF THE AXES. Then Minerva put it in Penelope's mind to let the suitors compete for the bow and for a prize of iron. So she went upstairs and got the key of the store room, where Ulysses' treasures of gold...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 12 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book XIII ULYSSES IS TAKEN BACK TO ITHACA BY THE PHACIANS. Thus did Ulysses speak, and Alcinous immediately proposed that they should make him still further presents. The expense, however, of these, he said, should be borne by a levy...
Preface : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. ix PREFACE The following work consists in some measure of matter already published in England and Italy during the last six years. The original publications were in the "Athenum", Jan. 30 and Feb. 20, 1892, and in the Eagle...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 16 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book IX THE VOYAGES OF ULYSSES--THE CICONS, LOTUS EATERS, AND THE CYCLOPS POLYPHEMUS. Then Ulysses rose. "King Alcinous," said he, "you ask my name and I will tell you. I am Ulysses, and dwell in Ithaca, an island which contains a high...
Chapter V. Whether Penelope Is Being Whitewashed : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. 125 Chapter V ON THE QUESTION WHETHER OR NO PENELOPE IS BEING WHITEWASHED. It is known that scandalous versions of Penelope's conduct were current among the ancients; indeed they seem to have prevailed before the completion of the Epic...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 08 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book XVII TELEMACHUS GOES TO THE TOWN, AND IS FOLLOWED BY EUMUS AND ULYSSES, WHO IS MALTREATED BY THE SUITORS. When morning came Telemachus told Eumus that he would now go to the town and show himself to his mother, who would never be...
Chapter Xiii. Further Evidence In Support : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. 225 CHAPTER XIII FURTHER EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF AN EARLY IONIAN SETTLEMENT AT OR CLOSE TO TRAPANI. I am often asked how I explain the fact that we find no trace in ancient authors of any tradition to the effect that the "Odyssey" w...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 20 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book V ULYSSES IN THE ISLAND OF CALYPSO--HE LEAVES THE ISLAND ON A RAFT, AND AFTER GREAT SUFFERING REACHES THE LAND OF THE PHACIANS. The gods now held a second council, at which Minerva and Jove both spoke. 28 When Jove had done speaking...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 24 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], THE STORY OF THE ODYSSEY Book I THE COUNCIL OF THE GODS--TELEMACHUS AND THE SUITORS IN THE HOUSE OF ULYSSES. Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who met with many adventures while trying to bring his men home after the Sack of Troy...
Untitled : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. 271 INDEX Nothing will be Indexed which can be found readily by referring to the Table of Contents. Acitrezza, the island of, 43 olian-Ionic dialect of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey," 219 olus, his island did not move about, 183 Agamemn...
Chapter Xii. The Date Of The Poem : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. 210 CHAPTER XII THE DATE OF THE POEM, AND A COMPARISON OF THE STATE OF THE NORTH WESTERN PART OF SICILY AS REVEALED TO US IN THE ODYSSEY, WITH THE ACCOUNT GIVEN BY THUCYDIDES OF THE SAME TERRITORY IN THE EARLIEST KNOWN TIMES. The view...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 22 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book III TELEMACHUS AT THE HOUSE OF NESTOR. They reached Pylos on the following morning, and found Nestor, his sons, and all the Pylians celebrating the feast of Neptune. They were cordially received, especially by Nestor's s...
Chapter Viii. Ithaca And Scheria Are Drawn : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. 158 CHAPTER VIII THAT ITHACA AND SCHERIA ARE BOTH OF THEM DRAWN FROM TRAPANI AND ITS IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD. I have now given, though far more briefly than the subject requires, some of my reasons for believing that from the first...
Chapter Vii. Further Indications Th : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. 142 CHAPTER VII FURTHER INDICATIONS THAT THE WRITER IS A WOMAN--YOUNG, HEADSTRONG, AND UNMARRIED. I will now touch briefly on the principal passages, over and above large general considerations and the details to which I have already...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 23 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book II ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLE OF ITHACA--TELEMACHUS STARTS FOR PYLOS. Next morning, as soon as he was up and dressed, Telemachus sent the criers round the town to call the people in assembly. When they came together he told them of his...
Chapter Xvi. Conclusion : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. 262 CHAPTER XVI CONCLUSION. Before I quit my subject, I should perhaps answer a question which the reader has probably long since asked himself. I mean, how it is conceivable that considerations so obvious as those urged...
Chapter Xi. Who Was The Writer : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. 200 CHAPTER XI WHO WAS THE WRITER? I believe the reader will by this time feel no doubt, from my earlier Chapters that the "Odyssey" was written by one woman, and from my later ones that this woman knew no other neighbourhood than th...
List Of Illustrations : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. xviii List Of Illustrations Nausicca "Frontispiece The house of Ulysses to face p. 17 The cave of Polyphemus to face p. 42 Signor Sugameli and the author in the cave of Polyphemus to face p. 43 Map of Trapani and Mt. Eryx p. 164...
Chapter Ix. The Voyages Of Ulysses Shown : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. 174 CHAPTER IX THE IONIAN AND THE GADEAN ISLANDS--THE VOYAGES OF ULYSSES SHOWN TO BE PRACTICALLY A SAIL ROUND SICILY FROM TRAPANI. In a later chapter I propose to show that the writer of the "Odyssey" had the "Iliad" before her...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 21 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book IV TELEMACHUS AT THE HOUSE OF MENELAUS--THE SUITORS RESOLVE TO LIE IN WAIT FOR HIM AS HE RETURNS, AND MURDER HIM. When the two young men reached Lacedmon they drove straight to Menelaus's house [and found him celebrating p. 25...
Chapter Xv. Relation To Other Poems : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. 249 CHAPTER XV THE ODYSSEY IN ITS RELATION TO THE OTHER POEMS OF THE TROJAN CYCLE, AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN THE HANDS OF THE AUTHORESS. The writer of the "Odyssey" appears to have known most of those lost poems of the Epic cycle--eight...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 05 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book XX ULYSSES CONVERSES WITH EUMUS, AND WITH HIS HERDSMAN PHILTIUS--THE SUITORS AGAIN MALTREAT HIM--THEOCLYMENUS FORETELLS THEIR DOOM AND LEAVES THE HOUSE. Ulysses made himself a bed of an untanned ox-hide in the vestibule and covered...
Chapter Xiv. That The Iliad Which The Writer : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. 232 CHAPTER XIV THAT THE ILIAD WHICH THE WRITER OF THE ODYSSEY KNEW WAS THE SAME AS WHAT WE NOW HAVE. It remains for me to show that the writer of the "Odyssey" had the "Iliad" before her to all intents and purposes as we now have it...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 09 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book XVI ULYSSES AND TELEMACHUS BECOME KNOWN TO ONE ANOTHER. Ulysses and Eumus prepared their meal at daybreak. When Telemachus was reaching the hut, Ulysses observed that the dogs did not bark, though he heard footsteps, and 7 enquired...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 17 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book VIII THE PHACIAN GAMES AND BANQUET IN HONOUR OF ULYSSES. When morning came Alcinous called an assembly of the Phacians, and Minerva went about urging every one to come p. 38 and see the wonderful stranger. She also gave Ulysses...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 13 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book XII THE SIRENS--SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS--THE CATTLE OF THE SUN. "As soon as we were clear of the river Oceanus, we got out into the open and reached the an island, where there is dawn and sunrise. There we landed, camped down up...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 07 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book XVIII THE FIGHT BETWEEN ULYSSES AND IRUS--THE SUITORS MAKE PRESENTS TO PENELOPE--AND ILL-TREAT ULYSSES. Now there came a common tramp to Ulysses' house, begging--a great hulking fellow with no stay in him--whose name was Arnus; but...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book. Part 19 : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book VI THE MEETING BETWEEN ULYSSES AND NAUSICAA. While Ulysses was thus slumbering, Minerva went to the land of the Phacians, on which Ulysses had been cast. p. 31 Now the Phacians used to live in Hypereia near the law-less 4 Cyclopes...
Chapter Iii. The Preponderance Of Wom : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. 105 CHAPTER III THE PREPONDERANCE OF WOMAN IN THE ODYSSEY. Having in my first chapter met the only " priori" objections to my views concerning the sex of the writer which have yet been presented to me, I now turn to the evidence...
Chapter Ii. The Story Of The Odyssey. Book : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], Book XXIV THE GHOSTS OF THE SUITORS IN HADES--ULYSSES SEES HIS FATHER--IS ATTACKED BY THE FRIENDS OF THE SUITORS--LAERTES KILLS EUPEITHES--PEACE IS MADE BETWEEN HIM AND THE PEOPLE OF ITHACA. Then Mercury took the fair golden wand with...
Chapter I. Importance Of The Enquiry : * "The Authoress of the Odyssey", by Samuel Butler, [1922], p. 1 THE AUTHORESS OF THE ODYSSEY CHAPTER I IMPORTANCE OF THE ENQUIRY--THE STEPS WHEREBY I WAS LED TO MY CONCLUSIONS--THE MULTITUDE OF EARLY GREEK POETESSES REMOVES ANY " PRIORI" DIFFICULTY--THE MUSES AND MINERVA AS HEADS...
