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Page 108
... hero one of the men he had already put into song ; but here he had a real difficulty which he had not faced in the Iliad , since in that poem the pre- eminence of Achilles could be taken for granted and the poet without any preparation ...
... hero one of the men he had already put into song ; but here he had a real difficulty which he had not faced in the Iliad , since in that poem the pre- eminence of Achilles could be taken for granted and the poet without any preparation ...
Page 111
... hero . It was not Ajax , Diomede , or even Achilles that inspired the bard , but it was Odysseus . Even the Cyclops had been warned that he was to lose his sight at the hands of Odysseus , and Hermes had taunted Circe with the threat ...
... hero . It was not Ajax , Diomede , or even Achilles that inspired the bard , but it was Odysseus . Even the Cyclops had been warned that he was to lose his sight at the hands of Odysseus , and Hermes had taunted Circe with the threat ...
Page 168
... hero will have a less exciting and instructive expe- rience than that of the hero of the Odyssey , if his travels be confined to the world of the living ; and if a Roman poet cannot picture the world of the dead as Homer did , so much ...
... hero will have a less exciting and instructive expe- rience than that of the hero of the Odyssey , if his travels be confined to the world of the living ; and if a Roman poet cannot picture the world of the dead as Homer did , so much ...
Contents
Paul Shorey | 57 |
THE POETIC STRUCTURE OF THE ODYSSEY | 97 |
ANCIENT EMPIRES AND The Modern WORLD | 125 |
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