^{page 12 note 1} Fitzgerald, Robert, Homer, The Odyssey (New York, 1963), 479–83.Google Scholar

^{page 14 note 1} Stanford, W. B., ed., The Odyssey of Homer ² i, ii (London, 1959)Google Scholar, cited henceforward by author's name only.

^{page 15 note 2} Fitzgerald, , loc. cit. 482.Google Scholar

^{page 16 note 1} LSJ, s.v. 4.

^{page 17 note 1} Cf. also xviii. 235 ff. (Telemachus, ), 384 ff.Google Scholar (Odysseus, ), xxi. 200 ff.Google Scholar (Philoetius, seconded by Eumaeus).

^{page 17 note 1} See Stanford at xvii. 541–2, and Halliday, W. R., Greek Divination (London, 1913), 176, n. 4.Google Scholar

^{page 17 note 2} The relevant material is collected by Moore, C. H., ‘Prophecy in the Ancient Epic’, HSCP 32 (1921), 99 ff.Google Scholar, especially 116–28.

^{page 19 note 1} ‘The only clear example of ecstatic prophecy in H.’ according to Stanford at xx. 351 ff.

^{page 20 note 1} Part of Teiresias' prophecy is repeated by Circe in Book xii, the lines concerning Odysseus' return (xii. 137–41 = xi. 110–14). The repetition has offended hypercritics, but it is quite natural, coming as it does at the end of Circe's prophecy of Odysseus' immediate future, the Sirens, Drifting Rocks, Scylla and Charybdis, the cattle of Helios. These immediate adventures play no part in Teiresias' prophecy; he is more concerned with the ultimate, the mysterious, the cosmic.

^{page 20 note 2} A full list of dreams can be found in Messer, W. S., The Dream in Homer and Greek Tragedy (New York, 1918), 24 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 20 note 3} Dodds, E. R., The Greeks and the Irrational (Berkeley, 1951, repr. Boston, 1957), 105.Google Scholar

^{page 21 note 1} Ibid. 104.

^{page 21 note 2} Fitzgerald, , op. cit. 481.Google Scholar

^{page 22 note 1} Athena has quite a time convincing Odysseus. To his queries and complaints she retorts angrily, ‘Stubborn! I am a god: we could match fifty troops of men’ (45–51). We see Odysseus here for the first time voicing the kind of sceptical doubts that Telemachus and Penelope had raised earlier.