Excerpt from The Odyssey of Homer, Vol. 2: Edited With Marginal References, Various Readings, Notes and Appendices; Books VII to XII On the chorizontic doctrine and the antiquity of the Homeric poems. I. It seems impossible'to exhaust the interest of the controversies which have arisen out of the Homeric poems. The preface to Mr. Paley's edition of the first half of the Iliad, supplemented by the preface which aecom panied the smaller edition of the same, and by an Essay by the same distinguished Scholar, On the compara tively late date and composite character of our Iliad and Odyssey, all take the ground of a modern author ship of our present poems under that name. These have been followed by an article in the Edinburgh Rem'ew, April 1871, which turns entirely on the ques tion whether the Odyssey is by an author of the same age as the Iliad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.