V.

_Varro’s_ triple division of pagan theology, i. 439; his triple partition of past time, i. 488.

_Veneti_, the, i. 319.

_Villagers_ regarded as inferiors by Hellens, ii. 259, 263.

_Villages_ numerous in early Greece, ii. 261.

_Volsunga Saga_, i. 479.

W.

_War_, the first sacred, iv. 62 _seq._, v. 346; the social, xi. 220, 231; the second sacred, xi. 241 _seq._, 374, 421 _seq._; the third sacred. xi. 468.

_Wise men_ of Greece, seven, iv. 94 _seq._

_Wolf’s_ Prolegomena to Homer, ii. 142; his theory on the composition of the Iliad and Odyssey, ii. 150 _seq._

_Women_, Solon’s laws respecting, iii. 140.

_Wooden horse_ of Troy, the, i. 303, 309.

_“Works and Days”_, races of men in, i. 64 _seq._; differs from the Theogony and Homer, i. 66; mingled ethical and mythical sentiment in, i. 67 _seq._; the earliest didactic poem, i. 69; personal feeling pervading, i. 71; probable age of, i. 72; legend of Pandôra in, i. 76; general feeling of the poet in, i. 77; on women, i. 77.

_Writing_, unknown to Homeric and Hesiodic Greeks, ii. 116; few traces of, long after the Homeric age, ii. 142; among the Greeks, iv. 97.