er unanimity than any other portion of
the Odyssey, with the possible exception of portions of the last two
Books. Let us confess, however, that our tendency is to reconcile, if
this can be done, the discords and to knit together the rent garment,
by threads not always on the surface, but very real to any eye which is
willing to look underneath.

Unquestionably a punitive element enters now, there is guilt and
punishment in Hades. But who has not felt that in the preceding
division the three Greek heroes were under the inevitable penalty of
their own deeds? Very natural is the transition. Indeed the three
divisions of the Book show a gradual movement toward a penal view of
Hades: the first (Tiresias and the Famous Mothers) has a slight
suggestion of the penalty; the second (the three Greek heroes) has the
idea of punishment implicit everywhere; the third makes the idea
explicit and organizes itself upon the same.

Again, there is a change of style, which now is strongly tinged with
the Orphic, initiatory, symbolical manner, in marked contrast with the
clear-flowing narrative which has just preceded. But we noticed the
same characteristic before, in the first division of the Book, where
the sacrificial rites and the part of Tiresias were given. Homer has
many styles, not each style has many Homers, nor is there a new Homer
needed for each change of style. Note the great varieties of style in
the two Parts of Faust by way of illustration. Moreover we here pass
into the dim Pre-Trojan epoch, as was the case in the first division,
but guilt is now flung into that time and with it the penalty. Hoary,
gigantic shapes of eld do wrong to the Gods, and are put into the
punitory Hades. Thus this third division returns to the first with its
own new principle. In truth one may say that Homer herein shows
features akin to Hesiod; well, Homer is Hesiod and many more.

We hold, therefore, that this third division is an organic part of the
Book both in idea and structure; it carries to completion the thought
of a world-justice, which Tiresias has already declared in his speech
to Ulysses, and which is exemplified in the three Greek heroes. Thus it
unfolds what lies in the first two divisions, and links them together
in a new and deeper thought. For this realm of Hades, hitherto a
distracted spot without any apparent order, now gets organized with its
own Justiciary and its own Law. Yet here too we shall find a solution
and a paralle