The Authoress of the Odyssey

Æn. III. 667, 678.

He calls the Cyclopes "Ætnæan" because he places them on Mt. Etna.

74

There is no Phœnician work in the bastion shown in my illustration, the restorations here are medieval.

75

Introduction to Homer, Ed. 1888, pp. 172, 173.

76

On its earlier coins Syracuse not unfrequently appears as Syra.

77

The fact that Σικανίης (xxiv. 397) should not have got corrupted into Σικελίης – which would scan just as well – during the many centuries that the island was called Σικελία, suggests a written original, though I need hardly say that I should not rely on so small a matter if it rested by itself.

78

See Prof. Jebb's Introduction to Homer, ed. 1888, Note I on p. 43.

79

Murray, 1830.

80

The Mycenæan Age, by Dr. Chrestos Tsountas and Dr. J. Irving Manatt, Macmillan, 1897, p. 369.

81

The dark line across my illustration is only due to an accident that happened to my negative. I believe (but am not quite sure, for my note about it was not written on the spot) that the bit of wall given in my second illustration has nothing to do with the Iliadic wall, and is of greatly later date. I give it to show how much imagination is necessary in judging of any wall that has been much weathered.

82

Ed. 1888, note on p. 91.

83

Herodotus tells us (I. 163) that the Phocæans were the first people to undertake long voyages, exploring the Tuscan sea, and going as far as Cadiz. He says that their ships were not the round ones commonly used for commerce, but long vessels with fifty oarsmen. The reader will recollect that this feature of Phocæan navigation is found also among the Phæacians, who sent Ulysses to the place that we are to take as Ithaca, in a vessel that had fifty oarsmen.

84

One cannot help wondering whether the episode of the Lotus-eaters may not be due to the existence of traditions among the Phæacians that their ancestors had made some stay in Libya before reaching Sicily.

85

Od. xix. 410, 432.

86

Drepanum means a curved sword or scymitar. Drepane is a sickle.

87

See Smith's Dictionary of Classical Geography, under Corcyra, where full references will be found.

88

ἡυεῖς δέ κλέος οἷον ἀκούομεν, οὐδέ τι ἴδμεν, Il. II. 486.

89

Introduction to Homer, Macmillan, 1888, p. 172.

90

None of these three passages will be found in my abridgement.

91

Cf. Od. ix. 391-393.

92

iv. 73, xv. 460, xviii. 296.

93

I see that my grandfather, Dr. Butler, of Shrewsbury, accepts it in his Antient Geography, published in 1813, but I do not know where he got it from.