Note 367 — Chapter I
Reading edition
Homer and the Homeric Age (London, 1858), ii. 334. The question of Aeaea, “where are the dancing places of the dawn” (Od. xii. 5), almost induces Gladstone to believe that Homer thought the earth cylindrical, but it may be doubted if the expression means more than an outburst of joy at returning from the darkness beyond ocean to the realm of light.