28
Betrachtungen
uber die Ilias.
Iliad - Pope
c. ,_ p. 143, sqq.
Heeren steers between the two opinions, observing that, "The
Dschungariade of the Calmucks is said to surpass the poems of Homer
in length, as much as it stands beneath them in merit, and yet it
exists only in the memory of a people which is not unacquainted with
writing. But the songs of a nation are probably the last things
which are committed to writing, for the very reason that they are
remembered. "-- _Ancient Greece. _ p. 100.
26 Vol. II p. 198, sqq.
27 Quarterly Review, _l. c. ,_ p. 131 sq.
28 Betrachtungen uber die Ilias. Berol. 1841. See Grote, p. 204. Notes
and Queries, vol. v. p. 221.
29 Prolegg. pp. xxxii. , xxxvi. , &c.
30 Vol. ii.
