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Herodotus's devotion to oracles , Thucydides assures us with some satisfaction that of all the oracles in connection with the War , he had known only one , that regarding the length of the war , to be fulfilled .
Herodotus's devotion to oracles , Thucydides assures us with some satisfaction that of all the oracles in connection with the War , he had known only one , that regarding the length of the war , to be fulfilled .
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As Pope puts it : Some doubt if equal pains or equal fire The humbler muse of comedy require , But in known images of life I guess The labor greater as the indulgence less . Aristotle , it is true , cynically observes , as a modern ...
As Pope puts it : Some doubt if equal pains or equal fire The humbler muse of comedy require , But in known images of life I guess The labor greater as the indulgence less . Aristotle , it is true , cynically observes , as a modern ...
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These and scores of important events were passed over in silence because they were assumed as known from tradition . What art the poet used to keep from the necessity of repeating something the audience already knew !
These and scores of important events were passed over in silence because they were assumed as known from tradition . What art the poet used to keep from the necessity of repeating something the audience already knew !
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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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