Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age: Prolegomena. Achaeis or, The Ethnology of the Greek racesOxford University Press, 1858 |
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... degli altri poeti onore e lume ! Vagliami il lungo studio , e il grande amore Che m ' án fatto cercar lo tuo volume ; Tu sei lo mio maestro , e il mio autore b . Finally , though sharing the dissatisfaction of others at the established ...
... degli altri poeti onore e lume ! Vagliami il lungo studio , e il grande amore Che m ' án fatto cercar lo tuo volume ; Tu sei lo mio maestro , e il mio autore b . Finally , though sharing the dissatisfaction of others at the established ...
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Achæan name Achilles Æneas Æolid Agamemnon ancient appears Apyos Arcadians Argeian Argive Argos Athenians Attica Augeias belong Boeotia Cadmus called Catalogue character connection contingents Cretan Crete Danaan deity derived Deucalion Dodona Dorians Egypt Egyptian Elis Epeans Ephyre epithet Eumelus evidence fact father Greece Greek Greek nation Hellas Hellenic Hellic races Hellic tribes Herod Herodotus Hesiod historical Homer honour Ibid idea Idomeneus Iliad inhabitants islands Jupiter king later tradition Latin Leleges Lycian marked means Menelaus Minos Myrmidons natural Nestor observed Odyssey origin particular passage Pelasgian Pelasgian race Pelasgic Pelopids Peloponnesus perhaps Persian persons Phoenician phrase Phthia plain poems poet political presumption probably Pylians reference relation religion respect rule says sect seems sense Sicania Strabo supplied suppose supposition Thesprotian Thessalian Thessaly Thucydides tion Troica Trojan Troy Ulysses whole word ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν Αργος δὲ καὶ οἱ τε
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Page 397 - Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD GOD had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath GOD said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden...
Page 95 - If any man is inclined to call the unknown anteHellenic period of Greece by the name of Pelasgic, it is open to him to do so.
Page 36 - Homer are in the highest sense historical, as a record of ' manners and characters, feelings and tastes, races and countries, principles and institutions V 2. That there was a solid nucleus of fact in his account of the Trojan War. 3. That there did not yet exist adequate data for assigning to him, or to the Troltca, a place in -the established Chronology \ 4.
Page 6 - ... reappear, bright and fresh for application, among later generations of men. Others of them almost carry us back to the early morning of our race, the hours of its greater simplicity and purity, and more free intercourse with iii nl.
Page 28 - Why has Penelope a sister Iphthime,' who was wedded to Eumelus,' wanted for no other purpose than as a persona for Minerva in a dream ? y These questions, every one will admit, might be indefinitely multiplied.
Page 21 - Where other poets sketch, Homer draws; and where they draw, he carves. He alone, of all the now famous epic writers, moves (in the Iliad especially) subject to the stricter laws of time and place; he alone, while producing an unsurpassed work of the imagination, is also the greatest chronicler that ever lived, and presents to us, from his own single hand, a representation of life, manners, history, of morals, theology, and politics, so vivid and comprehensive, that it may be hard to say whether any...
Page 92 - Tu se' lo mio maestro e il mio autore: tu se' solo colui, da cui io tolsi lo bello stile, che m
Page 8 - But he has an excellent passage pointing out how the one may be regarded as supplementary to the other. Examining the history of the race, as regards the Greeks, it is Homer that furnishes the point of origin from which all distances are to be measured.
Page 6 - Homer, and is nowhere so vividly or so sincerely exhibited as in his works. He has a world of his own, into which, upon his strong wing, he carries us. There we find ourselves amidst a system of ideas, feelings, and actions, different from what are to be found anywhere else; and forming a new and distinct standard of humanity.
Page 550 - Now the result of all that we have drawn from Homer thus far would be to connect the Celts with the Pelasgi, with Media, and with the low Iranian countries ; the ' Germans ' with the Helli and with Persia.