The Authoress of the Odyssey Part 1

PREFACE.
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
CHAPTER I. IMPORTANCE OF THE ENQUIRY?THE STEPS WHEREBY I WAS LED TO MY CONCLUSIONS?THE MULTITUDE OF EARLY GREEK POETESSES REMOVES ANY?A PRIORI?DIFFICULTY?THE MUSES AND MINERVA AS HEADS OF LITERATURE?MAN, RATHER THAN WOMAN, THE INTERLOPER

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
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
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
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