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1 The chief interests of the play are perhaps the portrayal of the sweet womanliness of Deianeira , and the introductory chorus which seeks to console Deianeira for the vicissitudes of good and ill that are the law of our transitory ...
1 The chief interests of the play are perhaps the portrayal of the sweet womanliness of Deianeira , and the introductory chorus which seeks to console Deianeira for the vicissitudes of good and ill that are the law of our transitory ...
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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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It was necessary that we and the audience in Ithaca should be interested in Odysseus , but another audience must be created and an interest must be aroused in that new audience to hear from Odysseus's own lips the story of his ...
It was necessary that we and the audience in Ithaca should be interested in Odysseus , but another audience must be created and an interest must be aroused in that new audience to hear from Odysseus's own lips the story of his ...
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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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| Title | Martin Classical Lectures, Volume 1; Volume 1930 Martin classical lectures |
| Editor | Louis Eleazer Lord |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press, 1931 |
| Length | 181 pages |
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