vi ADDITIONAL NOTES.
before the Trojan War, his cruise may be dated c. 1250 B.C. But
the legend must not be taken as proof of the systematic opening
up of the Black Sea in prehistoric times. Archaeological evidence
of such early intercourse between the Aegean and the Black Sea
is almost wholly lacking; and Homer's knowledge of the way into
the Black Sea extended only a little distance into the Sea of
Marmora. The detailed knowledge of the coast of Asia Minor
which is revealed in the later forms of the Argonaut legend (as in
Apollonius Rhodius) was the result of Greek exploration in the
eighth and following centuries. On the growth of the Argonaut
legend, see Miss J. R. Bacon, The Voyage of the Argonauts \ on
its historical basis, see Burn, op. c£t.s ch. 9.
Pp. 20, 21. The River Oceanus
This outer stream was believed to have water-connexions with
the inner seas. According to Hesiod, Catalogue of Women, fr. 45,
the Argonauts returned home from the Black Sea by the river
Phasis and the Ocean stream, which carried them to Libya, from
which point they shouldered the good ship Argo to the Medi-
terranean Sea.
P. 24. Ithaca
The discrepancies noted in the text between Homeric Ithaca
and modern Thiaki have since given rise to the view that the
home of Odysseus should be sought in the adjacent island of
Leucas. This theory has been advocated with great ingenuity and
persistence by W. D5rpfeld (most recently in Alt-Ithaka^ a book
of two volumes), and it has been endorsed by W. Leaf, Homer
and History, ch. 5. But it has not found general acceptance. For
a recent re-statement of the claims of Thiaki, see Sir Rennell Rodd,
Homer*$ Ithaca.
Pp. 24, 25. The Homeric Catalogue
The view that the Homeric Catalogue of Ships was of later
date than the IKad\&& recently been further developed by Leaf (op.
«/., passim, and especially pp. 80-86). But strong arguments for
regarding it as an integral and original part of the 7/w^have been
advanced by T. W. Allen, The Homeric Catalogue of Ships,
especiallych.ii.