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Page 73
... greatest , but it is the most beautiful of Greek plays . These few words cannot convey a realizing sense of its beauty . Any sensitive reader , however , who will read it patiently two or three times in any good translation will come to ...
... greatest , but it is the most beautiful of Greek plays . These few words cannot convey a realizing sense of its beauty . Any sensitive reader , however , who will read it patiently two or three times in any good translation will come to ...
Page 97
... greatest glory and the greatest joy of life was to listen to their own poet as he sang of the mighty deeds of their own heroes . So far as we can judge there were no strong animosities dividing the Greeks in the Homeric period , and the ...
... greatest glory and the greatest joy of life was to listen to their own poet as he sang of the mighty deeds of their own heroes . So far as we can judge there were no strong animosities dividing the Greeks in the Homeric period , and the ...
Page 110
... greatest constructive powers in order to show that he was preparing no unequal contest . The poem opens in the halls of Zeus , and at once the conversation of the gods turns to Odysseus . Poseidon , his implacable foe , has gone on a ...
... greatest constructive powers in order to show that he was preparing no unequal contest . The poem opens in the halls of Zeus , and at once the conversation of the gods turns to Odysseus . Poseidon , his implacable foe , has gone on a ...
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