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Now for the stories which I have heard about the gods , I am not desirous to relate them , saving only the names of the deities ; for I hold that no man knows about the gods . more than another ; and I will say no more about them than ...
Now for the stories which I have heard about the gods , I am not desirous to relate them , saving only the names of the deities ; for I hold that no man knows about the gods . more than another ; and I will say no more about them than ...
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... god to do , and nothing improbable ; no difficulty ever arose that a god could not meet , hence no problem ever faced the poet for which the gods could not provide some solution . Hector was terribly mutilated after his death , and the ...
... god to do , and nothing improbable ; no difficulty ever arose that a god could not meet , hence no problem ever faced the poet for which the gods could not provide some solution . Hector was terribly mutilated after his death , and the ...
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... gods , gods which have no interest in the moral betterment of the world , and no interest in righteous or sinful acts of men . No man in Homer ever expected that virtue would be rewarded or wickedness punished by the gods , but all ...
... gods , gods which have no interest in the moral betterment of the world , and no interest in righteous or sinful acts of men . No man in Homer ever expected that virtue would be rewarded or wickedness punished by the gods , but all ...
Contents
Paul Shorey | 57 |
THE POETIC STRUCTURE OF THE ODYSSEY | 97 |
ANCIENT EMPIRES AND The Modern WORLD | 125 |
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