Telemachiad

The rest of the Telemachiad is the work of another poet.

Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

The second point of the Telemachiad is the education of Telemachus, which is indeed the chief fact of these

Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

Then the contrasts between the Telemachiad and the Ulyssiad link them together.

Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

Book without feeling its religious purport; an atmosphere it has peculiar to itself in relation to the other Books of the Telemachiad.

Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

Telemachiad: (1) Hellas, the Present; (2) back to Troy, the Past, in the reminiscences of Nestor, Menelaus, Helen; (3) forward to the Fairy

Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

_ This is another name, which we have frequently used, for the Telemachiad.

Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

To be sure, the joint is not so plain in the second division as in the first, which has the Telemachiad and the

Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

Both the Telemachiad and the Ulyssiad are essentially one great movement in two phases, showing the bud and the flower, the young and the mature man.

Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

Ulysses is to be told in the eight following Books (V-XII); that is, we are now to have the Ulyssiad, just as we have had the Telemachiad.

Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

(For the further structure of these two parts -- the Telemachiad and the Ulyssiad -- see preceding commentary under these titles.)

Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883