The Homeric poems are oral -- Homer and modern oral poetry -- The rise of Mycenae -- Life in a Late Bronze Age palace-state -- From the Achaean decline to the time of Homer -- Poetical possibilities of the Dark Age -- Was there Achaean epic poetry? -- Dark Age elements and Aeolic elements -- Some basic qualities -- The Iliad -- The Odyssey -- Subjects and styles -- The criterion of language -- Differences of material culture -- Structural differences in the Iliad -- Structural differences in the Odyssey -- Unity, real and imaginary -- The circumstances of monumental composition -- Two crucial phases of transmission -- The process of develeopment
