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... Homer of the Odyssey , who was not impro- bably of Peloponnesian birth , must have travelled widely . He had undeniably some personal acquaint- ance with Ithaca , his topographical indications , apart from 28 FAMILIAR STUDIES IN HOMER .
... Homer of the Odyssey , who was not impro- bably of Peloponnesian birth , must have travelled widely . He had undeniably some personal acquaint- ance with Ithaca , his topographical indications , apart from 28 FAMILIAR STUDIES IN HOMER .
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Agnes Mary Clerke. ance with Ithaca , his topographical indications , apart from the gross blunder of planting the little island west , instead of east of Cephalonia , corresponding on the whole quite closely with reality . And he knew ...
Agnes Mary Clerke. ance with Ithaca , his topographical indications , apart from the gross blunder of planting the little island west , instead of east of Cephalonia , corresponding on the whole quite closely with reality . And he knew ...
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... Ithaca as the sun lies at rising on the shortest day of winter . But it must be confessed that the direction was not thus very accurately laid down , the comprised angle being 150 , instead of 23. To those early students of nature , the ...
... Ithaca as the sun lies at rising on the shortest day of winter . But it must be confessed that the direction was not thus very accurately laid down , the comprised angle being 150 , instead of 23. To those early students of nature , the ...
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... Ithaca , Telemachus informs Menelaus , 2 contains neither wide tracks for chariot - driving , nor deep meadows for horse - pasture ; it is a goat - feeding land , though more beautiful , to his mind , in its ruggedness than even the ...
... Ithaca , Telemachus informs Menelaus , 2 contains neither wide tracks for chariot - driving , nor deep meadows for horse - pasture ; it is a goat - feeding land , though more beautiful , to his mind , in its ruggedness than even the ...
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... Ithaca since his father's ' hollow ships ' sailed for Troy , we are told that he carried in his hand a brazen spear , and that the goddess poured out upon him a divine radiance of beauty such that the people marvelled as they gazed on ...
... Ithaca since his father's ' hollow ships ' sailed for Troy , we are told that he carried in his hand a brazen spear , and that the goddess poured out upon him a divine radiance of beauty such that the people marvelled as they gazed on ...
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