Volume 1: Part I. Prolegomena: 1. On the state of the Homeric question; 2. The place of Homer in classical education; 3. On the historic aims of Homer; 4. On the probable date of Homer; 5. The probable trustworthiness of the text of Homer; 6. Place and authority of Homer in historical inquiry; Part II. Achaeis. Ethnology of the Greek Races: 1. Scope of the inquiry; 2. On the Pelasgians, and cognate races; 3. The Pelasgians, and certain states naturalized of akin to Greece; 4. On the Phoenicians and the outer geography of the Odyssey; 5. On the Catalogue; 6. On the Hellenes of Homer; 7. On the respective contributions of the Pelasgian and Hellenic factors to the compound of the Greek nation; 8. On the three greater Homeric appellatives; 9. On the Homeric title of αναξ ανδρων; 10. On the connection of the Hellenes and Achaeans with the east; Addenda. Volume 2: 1. On the mixed character of the supernatural system, or theo-mythology of Homer; 2. The traditive element of the Homeric theo-mythology; 3. The inventive element of the Homeric theo-mythology; 4. The composition of the Olympian court, and the classification of the whole supernatural order in Homer; 5. The Olympian community and its members considered in themselves; 6. The Olympian community and its members considered in their influence on human society and conduct; 7. On the traces of an origin abroad for the Olympian religion; 8. The morals of the Homeric age; 9. Woman in the heroic age; 10. The office of the Homeric poems in relation to that of the early books of Holy Scripture. Volume 3: Part I. Agore, or the Polities of the Homeric Age; Part II. Ilios, the Trojans Compared and Contrasted with the Greeks; Part III. Thalassa, the Outer Geography of the Odyssey; Part IV. Aoidos: 1. On the plot of the Iliad; 2. The sense of beauty in Homer; 3. Homer's perception and use of number; 4. Homer's perception and use of colour; 5. Homer and some of his successors in epic poetry; 6. Some principal Homeric characters in Troy; 7. The declension of the great Homeric characters in the later tradition.
