Note 1 — Chapter XVIII

In English the best critical treatises are Homer and the Cyclic Poems, by the late Mr. Binning Monro in his Odyssey, Books xiii.-xxiv. pp. 340-384, with his "On the Fragment of Proclus's Abstract of the Epic Cycle," Journal of Hellenic Society, vol. iv. pp. 305-334. The discussion of the whole topic by Mr. T. W. Allen in The Classical Quarterly (1908) leaves no hint of ancient evidence unexplored, however remote and obscure its lurking place. Mr. Allen specially criticises the ingenious inferences of von Wilamowitz Moellendorff in his Homerische Untersuchungen, inferences which appear to be accepted by Mr. Murray in his Rise of the Greek Epic, and his lecture, "Anthropology in the Greek Epic Tradition outside of Homer," in Anthropology and the Classics, 1908.