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... gate ( ii ) Why does he emerge from the underworld by the gate of ivory , of false dreams , and not by the gate of horn , the gate of true shades ? ( 6.893-6 ) These are ancient problems and modern scholars are still at a loss . Jackson ...
... gate ( ii ) Why does he emerge from the underworld by the gate of ivory , of false dreams , and not by the gate of horn , the gate of true shades ? ( 6.893-6 ) These are ancient problems and modern scholars are still at a loss . Jackson ...
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... ivory gate , the gate of false dreams ? Servius , as we have seen , has a simple answer : ' Poetically the sense is clear : for he wants it to be understood that everything he has said is false . ' But this is clearly wrong . After all ...
... ivory gate , the gate of false dreams ? Servius , as we have seen , has a simple answer : ' Poetically the sense is clear : for he wants it to be understood that everything he has said is false . ' But this is clearly wrong . After all ...
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... ivory gate . ' This view is close to that of E. Christian Kopff and Nanno Marinatos Kopff ( 1977 ) , who argue that ' the Gate of Horn is for real shades ' proceeding to rebirth , whereas ' the Gate of Ivory is more appropriate for ...
... ivory gate . ' This view is close to that of E. Christian Kopff and Nanno Marinatos Kopff ( 1977 ) , who argue that ' the Gate of Horn is for real shades ' proceeding to rebirth , whereas ' the Gate of Ivory is more appropriate for ...
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