Request Permissions : Click here Downloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/CAQ, IP address: 128.122.253.212 on 28 Apr 2015 PISISTRATUS AND HOMER. AN aspect of Pisistratus, which has not hitherto been utilized in this question (see p. 50), appears to justify another presentment of the evidence which connects him with the Homeric tradition. I shall endeavour to be brief and not to repeat what is common property or irrelevant. The literature and the bearing of the controversy are given with

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... usual clearness by P. Cauer, Grundfragen der Homerkritik, 2 pp. 125 sqq. Cauer's private doctrine, that Homer was for the first time written down by Pisistratus, I consider sufficiently refuted by C. Rothe, Die Was als Dichtung, pp. 5-13. Fantastic views lately promulgated in England are 1 dealt with conclusively to my mind by Mr. A. Lang, The World of Homer, pp. 281 sqq., to whose account nothing for controversial purposes need be added. On looking back over the literature I find myself most in agreement with Hans Flach, whose treatise, Die litterarische Thdtigkeit des Peisistratos, 1885, has been unduly depreciated. I shall have to repeat my own views expressed in the Classical Review, 1901, p. 7 ; 1907, p. 18; and in the Classical Quarterly, 1909, p. 84. I. THE AUTHORITIES. The passages of ancient authors which bear on this question fall into four groups-those dealing with the Panathenaea, those attesting the transport of the poems to Athens, those asserting the collection of the lays, those asserting interpolation. A. Lycurgus in Leocr. p. 102, fHovkopai, 8' vfuv /cal r&v 'Opijpov irapaaj(iaffai eirwv. ovrco yap iiireKafjov vfiSiv oi irarepes v epycov Trpoypovvro. The festival is named, but not the author of the law. An Athenian orator could hardly glorify Pisistratus, and Napoleon III. is still ignored by the French Republic. The passage implies that the Hesiodic corpus, Eumelus, etc., were excluded from the Panathenaea. Isocr. Panegyr. X L I I . = i59 olfiat, Se KOI TTJV 'Ofirjpov iroirjaiv /tetfoj Xafieiv Bo^av on KaKw TOVS Tro\e/j,rf rois (Sap(3apoi,<; ipe/ca)fi[aa€, KOX Bia TOVTO i TOI)? Trpoyovov; rjfjuvv evrofiov avrov 7roifj<rai TTJV re^i/Tjv ev re rots TJ?? 1 So I wrote ; we must now say ' were.' NO. I. VOL. VII.