{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/aoto/aoto44.htm","path":"cla/aoto/aoto44.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/aoto/aoto44.htm","text":"The Authoress of the Odyssey, by Samuel Butler, [1922]\nNothing will be Indexed which can be found readily by referring to the Table of Contents.\nAcitrezza, the island of, 43\n\u00c6olian-Ionic dialect of the \"Iliad\" and \"Odyssey,\" 219\n\u00c6olus, his island did not move about, 183\nAgamemnon, killed in a covered cloister, 18\nAlcinous, and Ar\u0113te, their family history, 34, 35; proposes that Ulysses should stay and marry Nausicaa, 37; promises to give Ulysses a gold cup, but never gives it, nor yet his talent of gold, 40; tells the Ph\u00e6acians of Neptune's threat, 41, 58; Alcinous, Ulysses, Menelaus and Nestor, all drawn from the same person, 115\nAmber, Sicilian, 260\nAmphinomus, Ulysses warns, 76\nAnticlea, tradition that she hanged herself, 65; in Hades, on the situation, 132, 133\nAntinous, never really wanted to marry Penelope, 91; his death throes and the good meat that was spoiled, 154\nArgenteria, the, near Trapani, 230\nArgus, Ulysses and, 151\nAristarchus, made most use of the Marseilles edition of \"Iliad\" and \"Odyssey,\" 219\nArmour, removal of the, 155\nArt, only interesting in so far as it reveals an artist, 6; the canons of, it is better to be below than above, 267\nArthurian legends, the, and Tennyson, 123\nAsinelli, the islet, 189\nAthen\u00e6um, the author's two letters to the, p. xvii\nAtreus, treasury of, 193\nAutolycus, an accomplished thief and perjurer, 81\nAxe, Calypso's, had a handle, 10\nAxes, the, why did not the suitors snatch them up? 153, 154\nBalaclava, said to resemble Trapani, 5\nBear, the great, Ulysses told to steer by the, 29, 181, 182, 187, 197\nBentley, saying the \"Odyssey\" was written for women, 4; not perceiving that the \"Odyssey\" is of later date than the \"Iliad,\" 5\nBiaggini, the late E., ix, 195\nBlind, how commentators came to think that Homer was, 7\nBrigands, modern, and Cyclopes, 193\nBrooch, the, of Ulysses, 80, 227\nButcher and Lang, Messrs., their translation of the \"Odyssey,\" 7\nButtmann, on the Wandering Cliffs, 196\nCalypso kept no man-servant, 107; her sailing directions to Ulysses, 181, 182, 187, 197\nCatalogues, the Iliadic known to the writer of the \"Odyssey,\" 174, 237\nCave, forms of the word, much more common in \"Odyssey\" than \"Iliad,\" 194\nCaves, the two near the place where Ulysses landed in Ithaca, 165-170\nCave-dwellers near Trapani, 193, 194\nCefal\u00f9, megalithic remains at, 185; called Portazza, 185; relays of fresh milk at, 186\nCharybdis and the Galofaro, 197\nCirce, kept no man-servant, 107; as good a prophet as Tiresias, 149; her house and Eum\u00e6us's pig-farm, 195\nClergyman, doctor, carpenter, bard, 152\nClytemnestra, naturally of a good disposition, 24, 116\nColeridge saw no burlesque in the speeches of the players in Hamlet, 259\nCollesano, Byzantine (?) remains at, 185\nConturr\u00e0no and his development since the \"Odyssey,\" 192\nCorfu, anciently called Drepane and then Scheria, 225, 226\nCyclopes, and L\u00e6strygonians, one race, 184; the, had two eyes, 191; still near neighbours of the Ph\u00e6acians, 190; and modern Brigands, as per Mr. Stigand's report in the Times, 193\nCyclops means round-faced as\u03bc\u03ae\u03bb\u03c9\u03c8, apple-faced, 190; Parmenides called the moon Cyclops, 190\nDante, the people whom he meets in another world, 112; \u00e8 un falso idolo, 113\nDarknesses, the two most notable of the \"Odyssey,\" 188, 189, 198\nDefoe, sends Robinson Crusoe a man, not a woman, 114\nDidyme, and the island of the Sirens, 195, 196\nDisc, Ulysses throws a, 39, 146\nDobree and \u03a6\u03c9\u03ba\u03ad\u03c9\u03bd, 223\nDoerpfeld, Dr., and the Iliadic wall, 217, 218\nDolius, and Ulysses, in the house of Laertes, 102, 156\nDoor, bedroom at Trapani fastened in the Odyssean manner, 141\nDrepane and Drepanum, 225\nDulichium, the most important of the Odyssean islands, 176, 177\nElpenor, and Ulysses in Hades, 110; his strange fall, 195\nElymi, Thucydides on the, 223\nEpic cycle, the Trojan books of the, known to the writer of the \"Odyssey,\" 249, 250\nEryx the Sican city on the top of, not abandoned, 221\nEteoneus, only a char-butler, 140\nEthiopians, the, known as stretching all across Africa, 18.\nEub\u0153a, assumed by Alcinous to be more distant from Scheria than Ithaca, 37\nEum\u00e6us, a male writer would have killed him, 156; a native of Syracuse, 210-212; perhaps a Greek, 214\nEurybates, why hunched in the shoulders, 235, 236\nEuryclea, becomes Eurynome, 74, 76, 79; the price paid for her, a rejoinder to the \"Iliad,\" 143; and Eurynome the same person, 150, 151\nEurymachus, his death throes, and the good meat that was spoiled, 154\nEurymedon, his overthrow, 34, 219, 220\nEurynome, see Euryclea\nEwes, and lambs, the present practice in Sicily, 148\nFavognana, derived from Favonius, 180; why Ulysses was not allowed to see, 197, 198\nFielding, his journey to the next world, 113; on Homer, 114\nFifths and Octaves, consecutive, forbidden, 119\nFour main lines of the argument, 163\nFreeman, Prof., his map of the West coast of Sicily, 176; visited Trapani, 263\nGeese, Penelope's dream about the, 82\nGenius, an offence, &c., 264; to be stamped out while young, 265\nGiacalone-Patti, Prof., ix.\nGladstone, the Right Hon. W. E., his canons as regards the text of \"Iliad\" and \"Odyssey,\" xi; the \"systematic and comprehensive\" study of Homer still young, 5, 6; contrasts the \"Iliad\" and \"Odyssey,\" 106; on Clytemnestra, 117; on the time when Homer wrote, 216\nGrammerton and Shrewsbury, 160\nGreatheart, Mr., 109\nHades, the writer's attitude towards women, in, 109\u2013112\nHarbour, Rheithron, used five times in the \"Odyssey,\" 167; of Trapani, boatmen plying for hire, 172\nHawk, tearing its prey, while still on the wing, 9, 66\nHelen, coming down to dinner at the house of Menelaus, 25; mixes Nepenthe in the wine, 26, 144; outside the wooden horse, 144; her penitence for the wrong that Venus had done her, 144; her present of a bridal dress to Telemachus, 150\nHeraclid\u00e6, return of, undateable, 215\nHermione, her marriage found more interesting than that of Megapenthes, 136; her marriage interpolated, 137\nHesiod, records a time when iron was not known, 193\nHomer, his infinite subtlety, 216; the authoress of the \"Odyssey\" was angry with him, 247; why the writer of the \"Odyssey\" let him so severely alone, 250, 251; protest against Introductions to Homer, which include the \"Odyssey.\" 263\nHorace, and mediocribus esse poetis, 264\nHorse the Trojan, story of the, shows that the Greeks did not know how Troy fell, 217\nHotel, man no use in a, 107\nHouse of Ulysses, the, 16, 17, 18\nHypereia, near the Cyclopes, 31; probable remains of its wall, 190; not completely abandoned, 221\nIacenses, the, 231\nIakin, the coin, and the British Museum catalogue of Sicilian coins, 227, 228\n\u0399\u03b1\u03ba\u1f40\u03c2, means Ionian, 213\n\"Iliad,\" catalogues of the, 174; date of, 215-219; the, refers to no event known to have been later than B.C. 1100, 218\nIngroia, Cav. Prof. of Calatafimi, ix\nInvention, not the authoress's strong point, 202-204\nIonian Settlements on East Sicilian shores, 213\nIrus, and Iris, 116\nIsmarus, and its wine, 180\nItalia, and \u0152notria, 184\nIthaca, drawn from Trapani and its neighbourhood, 165 drawn from the island of Marettimo as well as from Trapani, 172; \"all highest up in the sea,\" sketch of, 178\nJebb, Prof., the 1892 edition of his Introduction to Homer, xviii; his Introduction to Homer, 3; his quotation from Bentley, 4; on Bentley's not seeing that the \"Odyssey\" was of later date than the \"Iliad,\" 5; on the house of Ulysses, 15, 16; and the date of the \"Odyssey,\" 210; mentioned, 219, 233, 234, 249, 252\nJews, their prayers, for men and for women, 114\nJones, H. Festing, xxi; his, and the author's, joint oratorio Ulysses, 6; mentioned, 169, 186, 193\nKirchhoff, on the first 87 lines of \"Od.\" i., 252\nLaertes, why he left off calling on Penelope and coming to town, 131; not poor, 132\nL\u00e6strygonians, derivation of the word, and lastricare, 184; and Cyclopes one race, 184; their relays of fresh milk, 184\nLambs, living on two pulls a day at a milked ewe, 9, 44; and ewes-the present practice, 148\nLang, Mr. Andrew, on the house of Ulysses, 15, 16\nLatin names, the use of for Greek gods and heroes defended, xi, p. xii, xiii\nLayard, Sir H., visited Trapani, 263\nList of points necessary for the identification of Scheria, 158, 159\nLubbock, Sir John, his hundred books, 113\nLucian, the most ungallant of all, 113\nMagistrate, a hungry, Ulysses compared to, 56, 150\nMalconsiglio, legends concerning, 165\nMalta, not Calypso's island, 181, 187\nMan, and woman, never fully understand one another, 105; can caricature each other, but not draw, 106\nMarettimo, the island, had a wall all round it, 194\nMarseilles, the civic edition of \"Iliad\" and \"Odyssey\" used most largely by Aristarchus, 219\nMediocribus esse poetis, &c., 264\nMegalithicism, the two kinds of, 193\nMegapenthes, only married because his sister was, 138\nMelanthius and the store-room, 154, 155\nMenelaus, Ulysses, Alcinous, and Nestor, all from the same person, 115; the collapse of his splendour in Book xv., 139; he used to sell wine, 139; his frank bourgeoisie, 139; his fussiness, 139; why made to come back on the day of \u00c6gisthus's funeral feast, 236\nMentor, his name coined from Nestor's, 235\nMilk rarely to be had fresh except in the morning in Sicily and S. Italy, 186\nMilking ewes, what Sicilian shepherds now do, 148\nMinerva, not an easy person to recognise, and had deserted Ulysses for a long time, 59, 257, 258; Ulysses upbraids her for not telling Telemachus about his return, 60; her opinion of Penelope, 134, 135; her singular arrangements for Telemachus, 140; Ulysses remonstrates with her, 141; sending Telemachus a West wind to take him from Ithaca to Pylos, 199; her total absence in Books ix.\u2013xii. apologised for, 257, 258\nMixing-bowl, the, in an angle of the cloisters, 88; Phemius lays his lyre down near the, and near the approach to the trap-door, 94\nMotya, 177\nMure, Colonel, on the Ph\u00e6acian episode, 7, 258; visited Trapani, 263\nNarcissus, a cantata by H. Festing Jones, Esq., and the author, 259\nNausicaa, her dream, and going to the wash, 31, 32; her meeting with Ulysses, 32-34; the ill-natured gossip of her fellow townspeople, 33; her farewell to Ulysses, 41; the most probable authoress, 206208\nNepenthe, the order in which its virtues are recorded, 144\nNeptune, turns the Ph\u00e6acian ship into stone, 58\nNestor, Alcinous, Menelaus, and Ulysses, all drawn from the same person, 115\nOccasional notes, to show that the writer is a woman, 142-157\n\"Odyssey,\" the examples of feminine mistakes, 9; refers to nothing of later date than B.C. 1100, 218\n\u0152notria, and Italia, 184\nOlympia, apparently unknown to the writer, 218\nOrsi, Dr., mentioned, 185, 186; and pre-Corinthian cemeteries near Syracuse, 213\n\u1f40\u03c1\u03c3\u03bf\u03b8\u03cd\u03c1\u03b1, the, 17, 92; the way towards was in the corner of the cloister, near the mixing-bowl, 94\nPagoto, Signor Giuseppe, 148\nPantellaria, rightly placed as regards Scheria, 187; still a prison-island, 203\nParmenides, calls the moon Cyclops, 190\nPenelope, her web, 21, 129; gets presents out of the suitors, 77; scandalous versions of her conduct in ancient writers, 125; she protests too much, 126; did she ever try snubbing or boring, 130; Minerva's opinion of her, 134, 135; and the upset bath, 152; gloating over the luxury of woe, 152; not a satisfactory guardian of the estate, 153; tells her story to Ulysses before Ulysses tells his to her, 157\nPerseus, does not rescue Andromeda, 109\nPh\u00e6acian women, their skill in weaving, and general intelligence, 35\nPh\u00e6acians, the, making drink offerings to Mercury (covert satire), 36; Ulysses\u2019 farewell to the, 108; a thin disguise for Phoc\u00e6ans, 219; used 50-oared vessels like the Phoc\u00e6ans, 220\nPhemius, begs for mercy, 94\nPhoc\u00e6 and Phoc\u00e6ans, 218\nPhoc\u00e6a, an Ionian city surrounded by \u00c6olians, 219\nPhoc\u00e6ans, the, used 50-oared vessels, 220; and Phocians, 4, 222, 223\nPh\u0153nician quarrymen's marks on walls of Eryx, 192\nPh\u0153nicians, the, distrusted, but not much known about Phoenicia, 218\nPiacus, 228\nPic-nic, a, to Polyphemus's cave, 147, 148\nPisistratus, accompanies Telemachus to Sparta, 24; does not like crying during dinner, 25; gets no present, 150\nPlatt, Mr. Arthur, on the house of Ulysses, 15, 16\nPoetesses, early Greek, abundant, 11, 12\nPoliceman, identifying prisoner, 160\nPolyphemus, and his cave, drawn from life, 147, 148; his system of milking, 148; his cave still called la grotto di Polifemo, 188; the rocks he threw, Asinelli and Formiche,\n[paragraph continues] 189; had two eyes, 191: and Conturr\u00e0no, 191, 192\nPortazza, and Telepylus, 185\nQuarry, called Dacinoi, 231\nRaft, Ulysses\u2019, 29\nRheithron, the harbour, used five times in \"Odyssey,\" 167\nRudder, the poetess's ideas about a, 9, 10\n\"Ruler,\" a two foot, betraying a writer as a woman, 10\nSalt works of S. Cusumano, 166\nSappho, and other early Greek poetesses, 11, 12\nSardinian smile, a, 203\nScheria, means Jutland, 31; and Drepane, ancient names of Corfu, 225, 226\nSchliemann, visited Trapani, 263\nSeals, the intolerable smell of, 144; or Phoc\u00e6, malicious allusion to Phoc\u00e6ans, 220\nSegesta, later than the \"Odyssey,\" 185\nSelborne, Lord, his reminiscences, 172\nServants, like being told to eat and drink, 65\nShelley, on the sweetness of the \"Odyssey,\" 106\nShield of Achilles, the, its genuineness defended, 243-246\nShipwreck, and loss of Ulysses\u2019 ship, 56\nShirt, a clean, Alcinous\u2019 and his sons' views concerning, 145\nShrewsbury, and Grammerton, 160\nSicels, in the \"Odyssey,\" 214-215\n\u03a3\u03b9\u03ba\u03b1\u03bd\u03af\u03b7\u03c2, not corrupted into, \u03a3\u03b9\u03ba\u03b5\u03bb\u03af\u03b7\u03c2, 214\nSirens, the, and Didyme, 195, 196\nSleep, the, of Ulysses, 173, 253, 254.\nSmyth, Admiral, on the \u00c6olian islands and on Charybdis, 196, 197\nSnow, frequent in the \"Iliad,\" but hardly even named in the \"Odyssey,\" 260\nSpadaro, Prof., of Marettimo, 194\nSugameli, Signor, p. ix, 166, 169, 230, 231\nSuitors, the, how many from each island, 68; they are also the people who were sponging on Alcinous, 122; they cannot be perfect lovers and perfect spongers at the same time, 127; their version of Penelope's conduct, 128, 129\nSun, turnings of the, 211, 212\nSun-god, the, leaving his sheep and cattle in charge of two nymphs, 149\nSwallow, Ulysses bowstring sings like a, 90; Minerva flies out to the rafters like a, 154\nSyracuse, pre-Corinthian, 211, 212\nTarragona, the walls of, 222\nTaygetus range, still roadless, 198\nTedesco, Signor, of Marettimo, 194\nTelegony, the, and the \"Odyssey,\" 125\nTelemachus, lectured by Minerva, 120; and by Penelope, 121; the two great evils that have fallen on his house, 122; only twelve years old when Ulysses went to Hades, 133; his alarm about his property, 135, 136; did not tip Eteoneus, 150\nTelepylus, a fictitious name, 184\nTemesa, copper mines of, 19; its people did not speak Greek, 214\nTennyson, and the Arthurian legends, 123\nTheoclymenus sees the doom that overhangs the suitors and leaves the house, 86; his presence in the poem, strange, 201\nThersites, and Eurybates, 235, 236\nThucydides, and \"Phocians of those from Troy,\" 4, 5, 222, 223; on the Cyclopes and L\u00e6strygonians, 184; substantially in accord with the writer of the \"Odyssey,\" 221; biassed in favour of the Corfu Drepane rather than the Sicilian Drepanum, 226\nTiresias, his prophecy, and warning about the cattle of the Sun, 49, 50, 254, 255, 256\nTrapdoor, the, 92; the way towards was in the corner of the cloisters near the mixing bowl, 94\nTrapani, what any rival site has got to show before claiming much consideration, 162\nTrapani and \u00c6gadean islands from Mt. Eryx, sketch of, 178\nTroy, date of its real or supposed fall, 215-218\nUlysses, H. Festing Jones's, and S. Butler's oratorio, 6\nUlysses, fastens his chest with a knot that Circe had taught him, 258; his deep sleep, 173, 253, 254; upbraids Minerva for not telling Telemachus about his impending return, 60, 141; and Argus, 72, 151; warns Amphinomus, 76; rebukes Eurymachus, 78; he and Telemachus remove the armour, 79, 155; his brooch, 80, 227; having his feet washed by Euryclea, 81, 152; compared to a paunch cooking before a fire, 83, 153; his bedroom, surmise that the maids were hanged all round it, 98; interview with Laertes in the garden, 101, 102; eating with Dolius, 102, 156; his farewell speeches to the Ph\u00e6acians, and to Queen Ar\u0113te, 108; his main grievance a money one, 109; he, Alcinous, Menelaus, and Nestor, all drawn from the same person, x15; always thankless, 150; why not allowed to see either Favognana or the Scherian coast, 188, 197, 198; house of, and that of Alcinous, 205, 206\nUnconscious cerebration, examples of, 236, 237, 238, 239\nUstica, as the island of \u00c6olus, 183\nVirgil, and \u00c6neas in Hades, 113; gives the Cyclopes only one eye, 191; and Drepanum, 224\nWall, the Iliadic, date of, 217, 218\nWandering cliffs, the, 53, 54, 55, 196\nWolf, his theory baseless and mischievous, 2, 3\nWoman and man, never fully understand one another, 105; can caricature each other, but not draw, 106\nWomen, single, will not have a man in the house if they can help it, 107; in Hades, the writer's attitude towards, 110, 111; treatment of the guilty, in the house of Ulysses, 117-119\nWorld, its greatest men know little of the, 267\nYork, the Duke of, and his marriage, 108\nYoung people, apt to be thoughtless, 37, 146\nZimmern, Miss Helen, p. ix\nZummari, la Caletta dei, 195","title":"The Authoress of the Odyssey: Index","type":"page"}