Note 153 — Chapter II · HOMER—METHODS OF FISHING
Reading edition
Lectures on Greek Poetry, 67 ff. There are nearly three hundred comparisons in Homer’s poems; but of detailed similes only some two hundred and twenty, of which the Odyssey contains but forty. Miss Clerke (Familiar Studies in Homer, p. 182 ff.) shows that angling is mentioned chiefly in similes, which may, perhaps, indicate that the poet knew that this particular method was not practised in the days in which his poem is placed.