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... Iliad , were mainly the work of Ionic poets ; and the Epic was substantially an Ionic dialect . Yet the inference of an Asiatic origin thence naturally arising now clearly appears to be invalid . The lin- guistic argument , to begin ...
... Iliad , were mainly the work of Ionic poets ; and the Epic was substantially an Ionic dialect . Yet the inference of an Asiatic origin thence naturally arising now clearly appears to be invalid . The lin- guistic argument , to begin ...
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... Iliad , once applied to the Athenians 3 ( presumably ) , but does not occur at all in the Odyssey ; where , on the other hand , Dorians , unknown in the Iliad , are casually named as forming an element in the mixed population of Crete ...
... Iliad , once applied to the Athenians 3 ( presumably ) , but does not occur at all in the Odyssey ; where , on the other hand , Dorians , unknown in the Iliad , are casually named as forming an element in the mixed population of Crete ...
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Agnes Mary Clerke. for this assumption the Iliad itself gives us positive grounds . One warrior who falls is taken ... Iliad , xvi . 676-88 ( Lord Derby's translation ) . The plastic art of Mycena seems to have been on HOMER AS A POET ...
Agnes Mary Clerke. for this assumption the Iliad itself gives us positive grounds . One warrior who falls is taken ... Iliad , xvi . 676-88 ( Lord Derby's translation ) . The plastic art of Mycena seems to have been on HOMER AS A POET ...
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... Iliad and Odyssey to be illusory ; nor should it be forgotten that the evoking of a cosmos from a chaos implies a single regulative intelligence . And a cosmos each poem might very well be called ; while the ' embryon atoms ' from which ...
... Iliad and Odyssey to be illusory ; nor should it be forgotten that the evoking of a cosmos from a chaos implies a single regulative intelligence . And a cosmos each poem might very well be called ; while the ' embryon atoms ' from which ...
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... Iliad , however , stand in this respect by no means on the same footing . In the former , fundamental unity is obvious ; the develop- ment of the plot is logical and continuous ; there are no considerable redundancies , no superfluous ...
... Iliad , however , stand in this respect by no means on the same footing . In the former , fundamental unity is obvious ; the develop- ment of the plot is logical and continuous ; there are no considerable redundancies , no superfluous ...
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