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... acquaintance with many ' other stories ' of public notoriety besides those completely unfolded in them . The fate of Agamemnon , the death of Achilles , the madness of Ajax , the B 2 HOMER AS A POET AND AS A PROBLEM . 3.
... acquaintance with many ' other stories ' of public notoriety besides those completely unfolded in them . The fate of Agamemnon , the death of Achilles , the madness of Ajax , the B 2 HOMER AS A POET AND AS A PROBLEM . 3.
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... acquaintance with the fact that the polity described in them had , in the meantime , been overturned by external violence . A silence so remarkable can be explained only by the simple supposition that when they were composed , the ...
... acquaintance with the fact that the polity described in them had , in the meantime , been overturned by external violence . A silence so remarkable can be explained only by the simple supposition that when they were composed , the ...
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... acquaintance with the phenomena of the heavens was vivified by immediate personal experience of them . And in point of fact , Odyssey , xii . 383 . 2 Tb . xv . 404 . Sir W. Geddes believes that the solstitial place of the setting sun ...
... acquaintance with the phenomena of the heavens was vivified by immediate personal experience of them . And in point of fact , Odyssey , xii . 383 . 2 Tb . xv . 404 . Sir W. Geddes believes that the solstitial place of the setting sun ...
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... acquaintance with the Lesser Bear through Phoenician communication , of which Thales was the medium . Hence the designation of the group as Phoinike . Aratus ( who versified the prose of Eudoxus ) has accordingly two Bears , lying ( in ...
... acquaintance with the Lesser Bear through Phoenician communication , of which Thales was the medium . Hence the designation of the group as Phoinike . Aratus ( who versified the prose of Eudoxus ) has accordingly two Bears , lying ( in ...
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... acquaintance - the beloved of the Dawn , the mighty hunter , surpassing in beauty of person even the divinely - born Aloida - died and descended to 1 R. Brown , Archæologia , vol . xlvii . p . 352 ; Great Dionysiak Myth , chap . x . § v ...
... acquaintance - the beloved of the Dawn , the mighty hunter , surpassing in beauty of person even the divinely - born Aloida - died and descended to 1 R. Brown , Archæologia , vol . xlvii . p . 352 ; Great Dionysiak Myth , chap . x . § v ...
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