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Page 98
... Homer into some of the greatest absurdities ever produced in our lan- guage . Examples are to be found on every page , but this is typical . Homer wrote in beautiful words , " Lambs have horns at their birth . " When Pope saw such a ...
... Homer into some of the greatest absurdities ever produced in our lan- guage . Examples are to be found on every page , but this is typical . Homer wrote in beautiful words , " Lambs have horns at their birth . " When Pope saw such a ...
Page 99
... Homer's superb meter , the dactylic hexameter , is due to the language , or the language is due to the hexameter , as each seems born for the other . Homer can be comprehended and appreciated only in his own language . It is an easy ...
... Homer's superb meter , the dactylic hexameter , is due to the language , or the language is due to the hexameter , as each seems born for the other . Homer can be comprehended and appreciated only in his own language . It is an easy ...
Page 120
... Homer assigned to Ithaca in Leucas ; everything has survived , even the names of the springs and the rocks . Of these five great experts one alone thinks Leucas is Ithaca , one thinks Cephallenia is Ithaca , and three think Thiaki is ...
... Homer assigned to Ithaca in Leucas ; everything has survived , even the names of the springs and the rocks . Of these five great experts one alone thinks Leucas is Ithaca , one thinks Cephallenia is Ithaca , and three think Thiaki is ...
Contents
Paul Shorey | 57 |
THE POETIC STRUCTURE OF THE ODYSSEY | 97 |
ANCIENT EMPIRES AND The Modern WORLD | 125 |
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