period was dean of the faculty of arts and a member of the senate. Apart from a few classical textbooks and "The Tutorial History of Greece", published in 1904 (fourth impression 1915), Woodhouse for many years published only some contributions to the "Journal of Hellenic Studies". Woodhouse brought out "The Composition of Homer's Odyssey" (1930), a valuable and original contribution to Homeric scholarship. This was followed by "King Agis of Sparta and his Campaign in Arkadia in 418 B.C."(1933). His task was to do belated justice to King Agis "one of those born leaders who, taking no counsel of their fears, but accepting with serene self-reliance risks that appal a mediocre mind, compel their astonished adversaries to taste the bitterness of decisive and sometimes humiliating defeat" (p. 125). Woodhouse's adverse criticism of Thucydides's description of the battle of Mantinea did not find universal acceptance, but "he seems to have established that Thucydides's account is highly partisan, designed to show Agis in the role of lucky blunderer".