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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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We think of God as something exalted , as a unity , unseen and sacred , whose name cannot be lightly used , a name ... Our average citizen expects no miracles in the common affairs of life , but to Homer the gods were everywhere , ready ...
We think of God as something exalted , as a unity , unseen and sacred , whose name cannot be lightly used , a name ... Our average citizen expects no miracles in the common affairs of life , but to Homer the gods were everywhere , ready ...
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They have exactly the same conception of the 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 ...
They have exactly the same conception of the 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 ...
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Contents
Paul Shorey | 57 |
THE POETIC STRUCTURE OF THE ODYSSEY | 97 |
ANCIENT EMPIRES AND THE MODERN WORLD | 125 |
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