. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools. Achilles Slaying Hector. Circk Vase-painting of about 500 b. c. The figures are Athena, Achilles, Hector, Apollo. adventures of the crafty Greek hero, Odysseus, on his home-ward journey after Troy had been captured. When, at last,disguised as a beggar, he reached his island home of Ithaca, he slew the insolent suit-ors who were botheringhis faithful wife, and thetwo were happily re-united. 108. The Authorship ofthe Iliad and the Odyssey.—When the Iliad andthe Odyssey, because oftheir marvelous beauty,had become the greatnationa
. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools. Achilles Slaying Hector. Circk Vase-painting of about 500 b. c. The figures are Athena, Achilles, Hector, Apollo. adventures of the crafty Greek hero, Odysseus, on his home-ward journey after Troy had been captured. When, at last,disguised as a beggar, he reached his island home of Ithaca, he slew the insolent suit-ors who were botheringhis faithful wife, and thetwo were happily re-united. 108. The Authorship ofthe Iliad and the Odyssey.—When the Iliad andthe Odyssey, because oftheir marvelous beauty,had become the greatnational poems of theGreek peoples, men be-gan to inquire aboutHomer, who was said tohave written them. Theythought that he was a blind singer, and in the fourth centuryb. c, an unknown sculptor carved a head of Homer as hethought the blind poet might have looked. This was forcenturies accepted as the authentic portrait of the writerof the Iliad and the Odysseus Slaying the a Vase-painting of about 450 b. c. EARLY HELLENIC CIVILIZATION 89 It is now generally believed that the Iliad grew out of anumber of songs telling the deeds of the Greek heroes, allwoven around an original story, the Wrath of songs were written by different bards, or recitationists,and handed down from generation to generation. Thereprobably was one poet of greater genius than the rest whoworked them over, and put them into their present must have lived sometime before700 b. c, but we cannot prove whohe was, nor that his name wasHomer. 109. Government in the EpicPoems.—The Homeric poems arosein a chaotic period of change andunrest—a time of movement andmigration among the Greeks. Thisunsettled condition is reflected inthe government of the Greeks in thecamp about Troy, which may betaken as fairly typical of the gov-ernment of the age. The rule was in the hands of anhereditary king; but this royal powerwas much restricted by
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