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Page 97
... greatest glory and the greatest joy of life was to listen to their own poet as he sang of the mighty deeds of their own heroes . So far as we can judge there were no strong animosities dividing the Greeks in the Homeric period , and the ...
... greatest glory and the greatest joy of life was to listen to their own poet as he sang of the mighty deeds of their own heroes . So far as we can judge there were no strong animosities dividing the Greeks in the Homeric period , and the ...
Page 110
... greatest constructive powers in order to show that he was preparing no unequal contest . The poem opens in the halls of Zeus , and at once the conversation of the gods turns to Odysseus . Poseidon , his implacable foe , has gone on a ...
... greatest constructive powers in order to show that he was preparing no unequal contest . The poem opens in the halls of Zeus , and at once the conversation of the gods turns to Odysseus . Poseidon , his implacable foe , has gone on a ...
Page 180
... a poet could give it , in the struc- ture and story and spirit of his greatest poem , a poem which was at once adopted as a national creed ; and we know further that no other poet or writer of 180 MARTIN CLASSICAL LECTURES.
... a poet could give it , in the struc- ture and story and spirit of his greatest poem , a poem which was at once adopted as a national creed ; and we know further that no other poet or writer of 180 MARTIN CLASSICAL LECTURES.
Contents
Paul Shorey | 57 |
THE POETIC STRUCTURE OF THE ODYSSEY | 97 |
ANCIENT EMPIRES AND The Modern WORLD | 125 |
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