Virgil, Volume 10Sheed & Ward, 1946 - 162 pages |
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Page 61
... Odyssey . Indeed , the main charm of the Varus itself is not in the lines formulating a scientific theory of the causes of things , " but in the short but exquisite narratives of the fates of Pasiphae and the sisters of Phaethon . The ...
... Odyssey . Indeed , the main charm of the Varus itself is not in the lines formulating a scientific theory of the causes of things , " but in the short but exquisite narratives of the fates of Pasiphae and the sisters of Phaethon . The ...
Page 103
... Odyssey . In both poems the Trojan war lingers as a memory . In the Odyssey it re - echoes with something of the plain- tiveness of an old sorrow in the tales of Nestor and Menelaus , and still more in the regretful reminiscences of ...
... Odyssey . In both poems the Trojan war lingers as a memory . In the Odyssey it re - echoes with something of the plain- tiveness of an old sorrow in the tales of Nestor and Menelaus , and still more in the regretful reminiscences of ...
Page 129
... Odyssey would be followed by a minor Iliad , and no skill could fuse them in either a formal or a spiritual unity . That fatal flaw has been avoided by the blending of past and future in a vision of heroes surpassing even Homer's ...
... Odyssey would be followed by a minor Iliad , and no skill could fuse them in either a formal or a spiritual unity . That fatal flaw has been avoided by the blending of past and future in a vision of heroes surpassing even Homer's ...
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