Social Life in Greece from Homer to MenanderMacmillan, 1874 - 495 strani |
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... death of their kings is the same as that of the barbarians in Asia , for most of the bar- barians now practise the same custom when their kings die . ' He describes these customs in detail . The public lament over the deceased king ...
... death of their kings is the same as that of the barbarians in Asia , for most of the bar- barians now practise the same custom when their kings die . ' He describes these customs in detail . The public lament over the deceased king ...
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... death rather than yield one inch from his post . He must feel himself absolutely free from the stain of a single lie , or even of an equivocation . He must be ever ready to help the weak and the distressed , whether they be so by nature ...
... death rather than yield one inch from his post . He must feel himself absolutely free from the stain of a single lie , or even of an equivocation . He must be ever ready to help the weak and the distressed , whether they be so by nature ...
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... death , as he himself says , than proper cowardice . Ajax , who approaches nearest of the ordinary men in the poem to our notions of a stubborn soldier - even he is sur- prised by panic , and makes for the ships . There are farther ...
... death , as he himself says , than proper cowardice . Ajax , who approaches nearest of the ordinary men in the poem to our notions of a stubborn soldier - even he is sur- prised by panic , and makes for the ships . There are farther ...
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... death . The Greeks , then , though a very warlike , were not a very courageous people , and we may affirm of them , in a lesser degree indeed , what Tacitus says of the Britons : In deposcendis periculis eadem au- dacia , et ubi ...
... death . The Greeks , then , though a very warlike , were not a very courageous people , and we may affirm of them , in a lesser degree indeed , what Tacitus says of the Britons : In deposcendis periculis eadem au- dacia , et ubi ...
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... death . For although Homer distinctly admits an after life , and even introduces us to it in the Odyssey , he represents the greatest kings and heroes in weakness and in misery , without hope or enjoyment , save in hearing the vague and ...
... death . For although Homer distinctly admits an after life , and even introduces us to it in the Odyssey , he represents the greatest kings and heroes in weakness and in misery , without hope or enjoyment , save in hearing the vague and ...
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