III. Homer in Modern Times

1. The Homeric question in the West before Wolff

2. Fr.-Aug. Wolf

3. The Homeric question after Wolff

4. The latest works on Homer

IV. Some Conclusions from the History of the Homeric Question

1. The people as a creative individual and the individual as a creative people

2. Homer is a reflection of the history of the Greek people

3. The personality of Homer and the design of his works

4. Epic Artist

5. Greek Epic Painter

6. Greek Ionian Epic Painter

7. Greek Ionian epic artist of the epoch of the disintegration of the communal-clan system and its transition to the slave-holding formation

8. The Attic Conclusion of the Homeric Epic

9. The People of Homer

10. The Time and Place of Homer's Life

11. The current state of the question of the commission of Peisistratus and the Homeric reform of Solon

12. Homer's text in antiquity

13. The main thesis of Homeric studies

14. Another problem

V. Socio-historical basis

1. The struggle of the new with the old

2. Estates

3. Organization of power

4. Military democracy

5. Lack of legal formalism

6. Conclusion

VI. On Homer's Progressive Tendencies

1. Anti-war trend

2. A peaceful way of life in Homer's comparisons

3. Anti-aristocratic tendency

4. Other progressive trends

Part II: Homer's Artistic Mastery

I. The Epic and Its Socio-Historical Basis

1. Misunderstanding of Epic Style