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THE CLASSICAL REVIEW. 267
large number. Compare the New Hol- I am inclined to think that ' Four' presents
landers' 'One, Two, Many, Very many.' an insoluble mystery.
But this does not seem very plausible, and LILIAN M. BAGGE.
REVIEWS.
BLASS'S INTERPOLATIONS IN THE ODYSSEY.
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THE CLASSICAL REVIEW. 269
Alkinoos an den Phaaken riihmen will, 80KO); no want of 'connection' was felt at
keinen Bezug hat.' I daresay Schiitz and
that period. The evidence of later centuries.
Nitzsch thought so, but they had not does not authorise us to exclude the bard
enjoyed the picture of the Phaeacians as an from the heroic agon. The Phaeacians had
athletic and hygienic people which has been a long card; foot-race, wrestling, jump,
so brilliantly put before us. We know, quoits, boxing (incident of remarks on
nous autres, that the complements of 7roro Odysseus and Odysseus' exhibition), dancing
Kpa~7Trvw, 6EELvw and vyvoLv aptw-rE&ELv are to music (troupe), Demodocus' lay, dancing
warm water and clean clothes, and Alcinous (pas de deux). Herr Blass, who knows
includes these points in his general account everything, is aware that in historical Greece
of his people. Herr Blass will not have the
some &y,&ve; were athletic, some artistic, and
sailor's knot by which Arete advises Odysseus some mixed. In the Iliad, there being a
to secure his treasure (0 443); ' seltsam iststate of war and bards left at home, we have
dass Arete ihre Phaaken verdachtigt.' only games, but at the wake of Amphi-
What, with Odysseus all alone, in a deep damas, which Hesiod attended, there were
sleep 7 Even today in some countries you 'hymns,' at the Panionia hymns, prosodia,
are advised to insure your baggage, or to tie paeans, etc.; Delphi began by being entirely
it in string and seal it with lead. The musical, races were not added till 586. At.
mention of Circe (448) is not fatal. I Hermione, in what is called a IovrLK~ -y ~wv ,
presume Homer's audience knew Odysseus'there were prizes for diving and swimming-
wanderings in general. Does anyone suppose (Paus. ii. 35. 1); Pausanias infers from
Homer invented Circe ?-Here I stop, though Eumelus' words that the Ithomaea were at
the reading is very interesting. Herr Blassfirst musical (iv. 33. 2). Why is not the
in this department is practically an Alex-Phaeacian entertainment the first instance
andrian. He finds ' Anstoss' constantly, of the mixed festival ? Demodocus' 'lay'
and where he cannot climb over his obstacle about the Gods, contrasted with his previous
he takes it out. For my part, while I read excerpt from the Tale of Troy, resembles the
him I believe; but when I turn to the poet
pai8ows and Ermv 7ro7qr, or paqoooo s and
I see the rock of offence is imaginary. Hlerr
EYKWMLOtV ErLKOV (once EVKWltLOV ELS iovcra-
Blass is the superior of the Alexandrians in
C.I.G. Sept. 1773) which are standing cate-
linguistic, of his German predecessors gories
in in the Boeotian agonistic inscriptions
historical sense and taste; but he seems the
of s. iv-i B.C. Dem. sings 'unbidden ':
slave of a false conception of literature. No
why not ? An 3oSo'd was not an instrument.
He sang when the Muse moved him, the
poet's mind, no early poet's, and especially
no epic poet's, ever worked in the way Muse
he knew when.
supposes. The Nekyia has a good deal to suffer; the
I pass to the second part of the book, theHeroines and Minos, Orion, etc. (K 568 sq.)
discussion of the larger alterations, the work
must go. The latter passage constitutes an
of late epic poets. The interests here areOrphic interpolation. Herr Blass extols
greater, and we expect to find the criteriaWilamowitz's demonstration of this (Hom.
correspondingly clear. Herr Blass begins
Studien, pp. 199 sq.), but he leaves little
with V/ and w and takes a crab-like courseOrphic in the passage. Minos, Orion,
back to a. I will follow the order of nature. Tityos, and Heracles are unorphic, Sisy-
In 0 he almost assumes Demodocus' layphus and Tantalus remain: their names
must go, but pays little attention to its are reduplicated, and the vagueness of their
immorality and irreligion-which indeed description shows they are types, like the
are difficult to maintain, if one remembers Danaides. I am surprised that so careful
that all we know about the morals and a philologer as Herr Blass should build
religion of the heroic age is what Homer anything upon the etymology of heroic
tells us and then considers 5 294, 315, 333, he admits that Tantalus is not
names:
0 130, the grotesque stories in Hesiod, the
transparent: why should Sisyphus be Hel-
non-devotional tone of Hesiod Theog. lenic Greek at all ? On the other hand,
27, 28,
h. Berm. 577, 578 and the familiarity
the Ephyrean Sisyphus is an historical
with Heaven shown throughout the poems.
personage, and the absence of genealogy in
Herr Blass rejects the lay on account these
of its two cases is merely for variety. The
want of connection. ' Mit den Tanzen hat is correct in rejecting the agency
writer
das Lied nicht das Mindeste zu thun.' How of Onomacritus. We can have no deal-
does this appear ? Blass admits the age of with a sixth century Homer. Herr
ings
the episode and even quotes the chairBlass
at defends the relevancy of X as a whole
with, naturally, success: it is an adventure,
Amyclae (JaudKwv XopO KQG V ~ c IAv pLd-
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270 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW.
horses,
an OAos. Such things areand notOdysseus (Telegonia arg.)
relevant, but his
cattle, in Elis: the
they have to be undertaken. Thepeople of Pheneus in
Heroines,
those Queens of Song, 225 sq., are dis- Arcadia (Paus viii. 14) took care of his
missed as Hesiodean, and put on the same horses. Pheneus is further from the coast
level as the Catalogue of Ships. It is plain than Parnassus, and neither meant a long
that 'Katalog' like 'Zusammenhang' is a voyage. The episode delays the action.
term of occult power: otherwise by what What else do episodes do ? Delay is of the
mental process do critics restrict catalogues to nature of epos, as I find G6the laid down
Boeotia, and establish a connection between (Nitzsch, Beitrdge z. Gesch. der ep. Poes.
women and ships ? Ulysses sees the Hero- p. 108, n. 160) 'daher sind alle retardirende
ines because they are part of the population Motive episch.' Anxiety to arrive depends
of Hades: they are there in obedience to on century, civilisation and even race. The
a habit of mind which we may call 'Igemein- Parisian house, I am told, begins to go out
griechisch,' certainly not Hesiodean. I pre- when the denoi^ment comes in sight, the
sume, given the idea of divine fathers, ancients, as we know from their historians
limited in number, the detailed family and tragedians, adored protraction.
interest must fall upon the mothers. To The finale, q 297 to the end, is in a
derive the Achilles-episode from the MLKpaL different position. The unprejudiced reader,
'Ixh4d (with Wilamowitz) is craziness. In who like Herr Blass finds nothing wrong in
general Herr Blass takes the obvious view a-?, is sensible of a change, of a somewhat
that so far as there is any relation at all mechanical compression and repetition and
between Homer and the Cycle, the latter of the inferiority of the second vEKvLa to the
depends on the former. He is, however, first. Whether Aristophanes and Arist-
wrong in inferring from the citation of the archus had better grounds for their
K?raELOL (X 521) from Alcaeus and not from athetesis may be doubted. Herr Blass'
the MLKpa 'IALcs that Lesches' poem did not Oxford friends may yet find scholia to state
contain the name of this people. The OTr Lv rEv T 0o1 vpovurat, but so far no omission
Cycle is rarely quoted; the lyric and melicof such a size is attested. Herr Blass
poets completely overshadowed it. Stesi-acknowledges the literary merit of mo
chorus extinguished the Iliupersis, and, simi-this passage. The description of the cou
larly, Alcaeus' hymns to Apollo and Hermes part of Ithaca is excellent. The prin
are quoted in preference to the long andquestion is, where are we to look for
important hexameter hymns still extant. author of this sequel ? Hardly at Cor
Books o-a- may be passed over on thisas Blass thinks (p. 221) : I suppose he m
occasion. In the discussion of r-X the first Eumelus. The writer who occupied him
thing that strikes me is that r 31-4, thewith Odysseus' domestic affairs and wo
lines in which Athena goes before Od. andup his story was Eugammon.1 Herr
his son, a golden lamp in her hand, whilewill not enter into the Leucas-Ithaca que
they remove the arms from the hall, is called(p. 298); but he has the key in his h
' die geschmackloseste Stelle in der ganzenThe lines w 377, 8 otos NPLtKOV EXOV (La
Odyssee.' The ancients I know agreedEVKTl/LEVOV 7To70XLEpO I KT'qV prapoLO
that Homer, or as we should say the au
(8ovXorpor13 KaL Xtav EVjEXE To T7 itGavoiasof w, considered Nericus (in Leucas)
KrX. schol.). Well, ' il gusto' is a delicate
subject. Other readers feel the exact mainland; in other words that at this v
opposite. At all events in view of theearly period Thiaki was already Ithaca.
perpetual interference of Athena (she picked This part of the poem is touched on
up Diomedes' whip and broke Eumelus'in the first Appendix (p. 285). In w 7
Thetis buries Achilles. In Arctinus' Aethio-
yoke, *I 390) it is impossible to cut anything
out. Next we come to two of the most pis Thetis carries him to Leuce in the
Pontus. ' Also ist Arktinos von w abhangig.'
striking rrELcrdsOa in the poem, the N'rrTpa
Now the EKvtULis later than the rest of (o;
and T& iv HIapvacro-'. Herr Blass
'decidedly of opinion that the N&irrpathe
is
is rest
an of w is of about 700 B.c. at earliest.
Einheit,' for which we may thank him, The
butvEKvLa is later than this, Arctinus is
later than
he gives up Parnassus and Autolycus. the vEKUVta. Arctinus and the
Parnassus is ' far away'; is it? WhatAethiopis
can are therefore not earlier than 600,
we say about distances in the heroic age, as
1 Who is, however, rather late for the present
affecting practical relations ? Penelope's
purpose. Other candidates are the Thesprotis,
sister had married at Pherae, EdXa 7roXAbv
which occupied itself with Penelope (Paus. viii.
12. 5), and Musaeus, from whom Eugammon bor-
r'orpo6t (3 798Noemon
about easily. sq.): these(8islanders moved
635) kept his(Clem. Alex. Strom. vi. 2. 25).
rowed
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THE CLASSICAL REVIEW. 271
1 The Sicels it is admitted are mentioned v 383, critics I say olog 7r crvvrat; when I open
and Hesiod discusses the formation of the island Homer I repeat the Cambridge epigram,
fr. 183. c-o'8pa TEcrV'T. T. W. ALLEN.
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