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Notes on the Homeric House

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Alan J. B. Wace
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The critics and commentators who read these notes will probably object that I have not paid sufficient attention to the earlier literature on the subject. I must admit that I have not read Gerlach's paper, which is not accessible in Alexandria, but I have read at one time or another most of the recent papers on the Homeric house from Myres' paper in the Journal of Hellenic Studies to that of Palmer lately published in the Transactions of the Philological Society.* I think that practically all of what was written on the Homeric house before the excavations of Schliemann at Tiryns should now be disregarded. Further since most of that written since the excavation of Tiryns follows the erroneous or ‘traditional’ interpretation of the two megara at Tiryns as a men's and as a women's megaron, it also need not now be taken into account. Palmer's paper makes a great advance, but he did not have the opportunity of knowing the House of Columns at Mycenae. I have therefore as regards earlier literature confined myself to Homer himself and standard editions like those of Monro, Leaf, Merry, and Stanford, and have read the newer translations of the Odyssey, the Loeb version and those of T. E. Shaw and E. V. Rieu. If I have missed anything of importance I can only plead that Alexandria of to-day does not possess the same library facilities as Ptolemaic Alexandria.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 71 , November 1951 , pp. 203 - 211
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1951

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References

1 I am much indebted to my wife and daughter for their helpful and constructive criticism of these notes.

2 Philologus, Vol. XXX, p. 503 ff.

3 Vol. XX, 1900, pp. 128 ff.

4 1948, pp. 92 ff. My best thanks are due to Professor Palmer for most kindly sending me a copy of his paper.

5 Wace, , Mycenae, pp. 91 ff.Google Scholar, figs. 32–34, 108, a, b.

6 VI 288.

7 Leaf, and Bayfield, on Iliad VI 288.Google Scholar Compare their note on Iliad XXIV, 191 where Priam descends apparently to the same storeroom to select a ransom for Hector's body and they suggest that κατεβήσετο can be compared with the phrase ‘plunging into the depths of a wood’.

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14 See Blegen, Korakou, and Zygouries.

15 Odyssey XIX, 536, 552.

16 Odyssey IV, 71 ff.

17 Odyssey II, 337 ff.

18 See below p. 207.

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20 Wace, , Mycenae, pp. 55 ffGoogle Scholar, fig. 3, pp. 91 ff, figs. 32–34, 108.

21 Mr. Frank Stubbings has kindly helped me by discussing with me the use of this word.

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23 Odyssey XIX, 53.

24 Odyssey I, 329.

25 Odyssey XXI, 8 ff.

26 Odyssey XXII, 109, 143, 155, 161, 174, I79f.

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33 Wace, , Mycenae, p. 88Google Scholar; Seltman, , Creek Coins, p. 7Google Scholar, fig. 1.

34 Odyssey XIX, 574 ff., XXI, 3, 61.

35 Odyssey XIX, 17.

36 Odyssey XXII, 142 f.

37 Odyssey XXII, 140 f.

38 Odyssey XXII, 155.

39 Odyssey XXII, 143.

40 Wace, , Mycenae, p. 81Google Scholar; see B.S.A. XXV, pp. 234, 256.

41 See Palmer, op. cit. p. 114, on the use of the same word for bed room and storeroom.

42 Odyssey XXIII, 192.

43 Odyssey XIX, 53.

44 Odyssey XIX, 16, 30; XXI, 235, 382.

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48 Wace, , Mycenae, pp. 93, 96 f.Google Scholar, figs. 32, 33.

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50 Iliad IX, 663 ff.

51 Odyssey IV, 304.

52 Odyssey III, 402.

53 Iliad XXII, 440.

54 Odyssey IV, 307 ff.

55 Odyssey XXI, 146.

56 Iliad IX, 663 ff.

57 Odyssey XXIII, 178, 192.

58 Line 252.

59 Op. cit., 109.

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62 Op. cit., p. 102.

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72 E. V. Rieu.

73 Wace, , Mycenae, p. 81Google Scholar, figs. 98 a, b; see also B.S.A. XXV, pp. 234 f.