Abstract

The Word of Homer

The article presents information on the book "Life in the Hormeric Age," by Thomas Day Seymour. The Homeric poems are not only, in Matthew Arnold's phrase, the most important poetical monument existing," but they are, to borrow the terminology of a very different type of literary critic, among the most complete of human documents. Professor Seymour's "Life in the Homeric Age," though a work of independent verification and research, may not unfairly be described as an English "Buchholz," more attractively and lucidly written, reduced to the compass of one portly volume, brought down to date, furnished with maps and excellent photographs of Greek scenery, beautifully printed on thick paper, and decorated on its binding with golden Mycenaean ornament.