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... early stage of their career . The fact of their having secured a foothold in the Nile Valley accounts , too , for the strong Egyptian element in Mycenæan art ; and the evidence of habitual intercourse is further curi- ously strengthened ...
... early stage of their career . The fact of their having secured a foothold in the Nile Valley accounts , too , for the strong Egyptian element in Mycenæan art ; and the evidence of habitual intercourse is further curi- ously strengthened ...
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... early process of Ionicisation . So far as metrical considerations per- mitted , they were actually translated from the Æolic , or rather Achæan tongue , in which they were com- 1 1 Die Homerische Odyssee in der ursprünglichen ...
... early process of Ionicisation . So far as metrical considerations per- mitted , they were actually translated from the Æolic , or rather Achæan tongue , in which they were com- 1 1 Die Homerische Odyssee in der ursprünglichen ...
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... earliest full possession of their epical inheritance . As the general result of a century of Homeric controversy , instinctive appreciation may be said broadly to have got the better of verbal criticism . Not but that the latter has ...
... earliest full possession of their epical inheritance . As the general result of a century of Homeric controversy , instinctive appreciation may be said broadly to have got the better of verbal criticism . Not but that the latter has ...
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... its ways were comparatively straight , and its range limited . It was accordingly capable of being embraced with approximate entirety . Odyssey , i . 338 . Hence the encyclopædic character of the early epics . Humani HOMERIC ASTRONOMY . 31.
... its ways were comparatively straight , and its range limited . It was accordingly capable of being embraced with approximate entirety . Odyssey , i . 338 . Hence the encyclopædic character of the early epics . Humani HOMERIC ASTRONOMY . 31.
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Agnes Mary Clerke. Hence the encyclopædic character of the early epics . Humani nihil alienum . Whatever men thought , and knew , and did , in that morning of the world when they spontaneously arose , found a place in them . Now , some ...
Agnes Mary Clerke. Hence the encyclopædic character of the early epics . Humani nihil alienum . Whatever men thought , and knew , and did , in that morning of the world when they spontaneously arose , found a place in them . Now , some ...
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