Social Life in Greece from Homer to MenanderMacmillan, 1874 - 495 strani |
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... appear that the points of superiority in our condition to that of the Greeks were partly due to an accident in our civilisation - the discovery of a rapid means of multiplying books , but partly to a higher and better religion . This ...
... appear that the points of superiority in our condition to that of the Greeks were partly due to an accident in our civilisation - the discovery of a rapid means of multiplying books , but partly to a higher and better religion . This ...
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... appears to his children , when he lies suffering in a painful disease , long wasting , for a hostile deity was persecuting him ; as dear then as he is when the gods free him from his trouble , so dear did the land appear to Ulysses ...
... appears to his children , when he lies suffering in a painful disease , long wasting , for a hostile deity was persecuting him ; as dear then as he is when the gods free him from his trouble , so dear did the land appear to Ulysses ...
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... appear , and which seem to stand apart from the life of the Olympic gods . Perhaps Zeus himself , in his Dodonean ... appears to me , therefore , that the Homeric pic- ture of Olympus is very valuable as disclosing to us the poet's ...
... appear , and which seem to stand apart from the life of the Olympic gods . Perhaps Zeus himself , in his Dodonean ... appears to me , therefore , that the Homeric pic- ture of Olympus is very valuable as disclosing to us the poet's ...
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... appear to me rather the remains of a more primitive state of things , than the natural outburst of Homeric generosity , for even in the ideal society depicted by the poets , there are many passages where the close shrewdness and cal ...
... appear to me rather the remains of a more primitive state of things , than the natural outburst of Homeric generosity , for even in the ideal society depicted by the poets , there are many passages where the close shrewdness and cal ...
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... appear to nearly such advantage . The court of Menelaus is a worthy counterpart to this picture . No doubt this hero is always repre- sented in a very favourable point of view , socially , and Helen is acknowledged to have charms not ...
... appear to nearly such advantage . The court of Menelaus is a worthy counterpart to this picture . No doubt this hero is always repre- sented in a very favourable point of view , socially , and Helen is acknowledged to have charms not ...
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Stran 13 - One quality in the piece, sufficient of itself to claim a moment's attention, is that it is unique— original, indeed, is not too strong a word — in the manner of its conception and execution.