Chapter II: The Story of the Odyssey

Book i. The council of the gods--Telemachus and the suitors in
the house of Ulysses
Book ii. Assembly of the people of Ithaca--Telemachus starts for
Pylos
Book iii. Telemachus at the house of Nestor
Book iv. Telemachus at the house of Menelaus--The suitors
resolve to lie in wait for him as he returns, and
murder him
Book v. Ulysses in the island of Calypso--He leaves the island
on a raft, and after great suffering reaches the land
of the Phæacians
Book vi. The meeting between Ulysses and Nausicaa
Book vii. The splendours of the house of King Alcinous--Queen
Arete wants to know how Ulysses got his shirt and
cloak, for she knows them as her own work. Ulysses
explains
Book viii. The Phæacian games and banquet in honour of Ulysses 37
Book ix. The voyages of Ulysses--The Cicons, Lotus-eaters, and the
Cyclops Polyphemus
Book x. Æolus--The Læstrygonians--Circe
Book xi. Ulysses in the house of Hades
Book xii. The Sirens--Scylla and Charybdis--The cattle of the Sun
Book xiii. Ulysses is taken back to Ithaca by the Phæacians
Book xiv. Ulysses in the hut of Eumæus
Book xv. Telemachus returns from Pylos, and on landing goes to the
hut of Eumæus
Book xvi. Ulysses and Telemachus become known to one another
Book xvii. Telemachus goes to the town, and is followed by Eumæus
and Ulysses, who is maltreated by the suitors
Book xviii. The fight between Ulysses and Irus--The suitors make
presents to Penelope--and ill-treat Ulysses
Book xix. Ulysses converses with Penelope, and is recognised by
Euryclea
Book xx. Ulysses converses with Eumæus, and with his herdsman
Philœtius--The suitors again maltreat him--Theoclymenus
foretells their doom and leaves the house
Book xxi. The trial of the bow and of the axes
Book xxii. The killing of the suitors
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,
Philœtius, and Eumæus go to the house of Laertes 96
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

CHAPTER III.

THE PREPONDERANCE OF WOMAN IN THE ODYSSEY 105

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--AND OF MONEY

CHAPTER V.

ON THE QUESTION WHETHER OR NO PENELOPE IS BEING WHITEWASHED

CHAPTER VI.

FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE CHARACTER OF
PENELOPE--THE JOURNEY OF TELEMACHUS TO LACEDÆMON 134

CHAPTER VII.

FURTHER INDICATIONS THAT THE WRITER IS A WOMAN--YOUNG
--HEADSTRONG--AND UNMARRIED

CHAPTER VIII.

THAT ITHACA AND SCHERIA ARE BOTH OF THEM DRAWN FROM TRAPANI
AND ITS IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD

CHAPTER IX.

THE IONIAN AND THE ÆGADEAN ISLANDS--THE VOYAGES OF ULYSSES
SHOWN TO BE PRACTICALLY A SAIL ROUND SICILY FROM TRAPANI TO
TRAPANI

CHAPTER X.

FURTHER DETAILS REGARDING THE VOYAGES OF ULYSSES, TO
CONFIRM THE VIEW THAT THEY WERE A SAIL ROUND SICILY,
BEGINNING AND ENDING WITH MT. ERYX AND TRAPANI

CHAPTER XI.

WHO WAS THE WRITER?

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

CHAPTER XIII.

FURTHER EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF AN EARLY IONIAN SETTLEMENT
AT OR CLOSE TO TRAPANI

CHAPTER XIV.

THAT THE ILIAD WHICH THE WRITER OF THE ODYSSEY KNEW WAS THE
SAME AS WHAT WE NOW HAVE

CHAPTER XV.

THE ODYSSEY IN ITS RELATION TO THE OTHER POEMS OF THE
TROJAN CYCLE, AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN THE HANDS OF THE
AUTHORESS

CHAPTER XVI.

CONCLUSION

INDEX.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Frontispiece, Nausicaa.

The house of Ulysses
The cave of Polyphemus
Signor Sugameli and the author in the cave of Polyphemus
Map of Trapani and Mt. Eryx
The harbour Rheithron, now salt works of S. Cusumano
Mouth of the harbour Rheithron, now silted up
Map of the Ionian Islands
Map of the Ægadean Islands
Trapani from Mt. Eryx, showing Marettimo (Ithaca)
"all highest up in the sea"
Map of the voyage of Ulysses
Wall at Cefalù, rising from the sea
Megalithic remains on the mountain behind Cefalù
H. Festing Jones, Esq., in flute of column at Selinunte
Remains of megalithic wall on Mt. Eryx
Wall at Hissarlik, showing the effects of weathering
The Iliadic wall
A coin bearing the legend Iakin, and also showing
the brooch of Ulysses.

THE AUTHORESS OF THE ODYSSEY.