CHAPTER IV.

_THE WOMEN OF HOMER._

Helen of Troy--Her Eternal Youth--Variety of Legends connected with her.--Stesichorus.--Helen in the _Iliad_.--Helen in the _Odyssey_.--The Treatment of Helen by Æschylus.--Euripidean Handling of her Romance.--Helen in Greek Art.--Quintus Smyrnæus.--Apollonius of Tyana and the Ghost of Achilles.--Helen in the Faust Legend.--Marlowe and Goethe.--Penelope--Her Home-love.--Calypso and the Isle Ogygia.--Circe.--The Homeric and the Modern Circe.--Nausicaa--Her Perfect Girlishness.--Briseis and Andromache.--The Sense of Proportion and of Relative Distance in Homer's Pictures.--Andromache and Astyanax.--The Cult of Heroes and Heroines in Greece.--Artistic Presentation of Homeric Persons.--Philostratus Page 124