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Page 108
No doubt Homer was so pleased with the success of the Iliad that he decided to write a companion poem , taking for its 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 ...
No doubt Homer was so pleased with the success of the Iliad that he decided to write a companion poem , taking for its 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 ...
Page 111
When the bard in the presence of the faraway Phaeacians tuned his lyre it was to sing of this same mighty hero . It was not Ajax , Diomede , or even Achilles that inspired the bard , but it was Odysseus . Even the Cyclops had been ...
When the bard in the presence of the faraway Phaeacians tuned his lyre it was to sing of this same mighty hero . It was not Ajax , Diomede , or even Achilles that inspired the bard , but it was Odysseus . Even the Cyclops had been ...
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Or again : ' If I tell a story of travel , the hero will have a less exciting and instructive experience 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 ...
Or again : ' If I tell a story of travel , the hero will have a less exciting and instructive experience 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 ...
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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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