Homer and His Age

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. In Homer and the Epic, ten or twelve years ago, I examined the literary objections to Homeric unity. These objections are chiefly based on alleged discrepancies in the narrative, of which no one poet, it is supposed, could have been guilty. The critics repose, I venture to think, mainly on a fallacy. We may style it the fallacy of «the analytical reader.» The poet is expected to satisfy a minutely critical