Homer: The OdysseyBlackwood, 1870 - 136 páginas |
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... Achilles or Diomed in personal prowess , his advice and opinion are listened to with as much respect as those of the veteran Nestor . In the Iliad , too , he is , as he is called in the present poem , " the man of many devices . " His ...
... Achilles or Diomed in personal prowess , his advice and opinion are listened to with as much respect as those of the veteran Nestor . In the Iliad , too , he is , as he is called in the present poem , " the man of many devices . " His ...
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... Achilles would be entirely out of place . " The The Odyssey has been pronounced , by a high classical authority , to be emphatically a lady's book . Iliad , " says the great Bentley , " Homer made for men , and the Odyssey for the other ...
... Achilles would be entirely out of place . " The The Odyssey has been pronounced , by a high classical authority , to be emphatically a lady's book . Iliad , " says the great Bentley , " Homer made for men , and the Odyssey for the other ...
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... Achilles in his wrath does not affect us so nearly as the wandering voyager with his strange adventures , his hairbreadth escapes , and his not over - scrupulous devices . " 9 To our English sympathies the Odyssey appeals . strongly for ...
... Achilles in his wrath does not affect us so nearly as the wandering voyager with his strange adventures , his hairbreadth escapes , and his not over - scrupulous devices . " 9 To our English sympathies the Odyssey appeals . strongly for ...
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... Achilles . For him the dying prophecy of Hector had been soon ful- filled , and an arrow from the bow of Paris had stretched him in death , like his noble enemy , " before the Scean gates . " It was his son Neoptolemus , " the red ...
... Achilles . For him the dying prophecy of Hector had been soon ful- filled , and an arrow from the bow of Paris had stretched him in death , like his noble enemy , " before the Scean gates . " It was his son Neoptolemus , " the red ...
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... Achilles ; and at the same time the young Megapenthes , Menelaus's son by a slave wife , is to be married in his father's house . There is music and dancing in the halls when the travellers arrive ; but Menelaus , like Nestor , will ask ...
... Achilles ; and at the same time the young Megapenthes , Menelaus's son by a slave wife , is to be married in his father's house . There is music and dancing in the halls when the travellers arrive ; but Menelaus , like Nestor , will ask ...
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