Art and Humanity in Homer

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Macmillan, 1896 - 284 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 202 - of Homer, quotes Pope's rendering of this line, as a striking example of that translator's method in dealing with his original: — " Will my dread sire his ear regardful deign, And may his child the royal car obtain?")
Σελίδα 5 - is especially interesting, for the cause is probably to be found in the closing lines of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, where the author, evidently describing himself, says, — Blind is the man, and in Chios abounding in crags is his dwelling. The so-called Homeric hymns in
Σελίδα 146 - is the sole survivor at last! JEolus, who is next visited, and who gives the winds to Odysseus in a bag, is, according to Andrew Lang, "an heroic ancestor of the witches who down to the present century sold winds in the same fashion to Scottish mariners.
Σελίδα 126 - is it destined that he shall see his beloved, returning Unto his high-roofed hall and unto the land of his fathers." This divine machinery seems to us, perhaps, a rather foreign and artificial addition to the ancient epic; and in Virgil's age of
Σελίδα 241 - She first produced the author of these woes, In bearing Paris. Next the aged king Ruined me and Troy, when he slew not the babe, The firebrand's hateful image, Alexandras.
Σελίδα 130 - in the great closing scenes. Here, however, we perhaps touch upon the chief defect of the Iliad. Its action is retarded by interruptions, not merely by digressions. The Odyssey is the shorter poem by several thousand lines, but yet has both a much greater variety of interest and a
Σελίδα 115 - rear a mound for him, And on the twelfth will fight, if needs must be." (The last words with a despairing sigh, no doubt.) The great Achilles, fleet of foot, replied: " These things shall be for thee as thou dost bid, And even for so long a time will I Put off the war as thou commandest me.
Σελίδα 166 - Never may I return, when of fire my meed thou accordest. Never as living men may we sit, apart from our comrades, Weaving our counsel: for me hath yawned that destiny grievous Which at the very hour of my birth for me was appointed. Even for you,
Σελίδα 217 - Tis but a brief while since that I really thought him uncomely. Now is he like to the gods who abide in the open heavens. Would that such an one as he could be called my husband, Having his dwelling here and contented among us to tarry
Σελίδα 137 - Penelope ; and I fear we might almost find it in our hearts to forgive the sea-worn and warworn hero if he too had forgotten her ! Still more difficult to fit into the ethical frame of the picture is the Helen of the Odyssey. As she, or her poet, unfolds each womanly and queenly accomplishment, and, touching even upon the

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