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... , at some section of the Mycenæan epoch . There are many convincing reasons for holding that section to have been a late one . One of the principal is the familiar use of iron in the poems HOMER AS A POET AND AS A PROBLEM . 13.
... , at some section of the Mycenæan epoch . There are many convincing reasons for holding that section to have been a late one . One of the principal is the familiar use of iron in the poems HOMER AS A POET AND AS A PROBLEM . 13.
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Agnes Mary Clerke. principal is the familiar use of iron in the poems , although none has been met with in the old shaft- tombs within the citadel of Mycenæ , and only small quantities in the less distinguished graves below . It is , to ...
Agnes Mary Clerke. principal is the familiar use of iron in the poems , although none has been met with in the old shaft- tombs within the citadel of Mycenæ , and only small quantities in the less distinguished graves below . It is , to ...
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... iron makes a very distant approach to the hue indicated ; and Nature must have been in her most sportive mood when she clothed the flock of Poly- phemus in violet fleeces . Polyphemus , to be sure , lived in a semi - fabulous world ...
... iron makes a very distant approach to the hue indicated ; and Nature must have been in her most sportive mood when she clothed the flock of Poly- phemus in violet fleeces . Polyphemus , to be sure , lived in a semi - fabulous world ...
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... iron . The original signification of the term was copper ; and copper seems , in general , to have been the first metal to engage the attention of primitive man . This is easily accounted for . Copper is widely distributed ; it ...
... iron . The original signification of the term was copper ; and copper seems , in general , to have been the first metal to engage the attention of primitive man . This is easily accounted for . Copper is widely distributed ; it ...
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... iron . But in South Africa these positions are exchanged . There iron ranks as the fundamental metal ; gold being known to at least one Kafir tribe as yellow , ' silver as ' white , ' copper as ' red ' iron.2 And to these lin- guistic ...
... iron . But in South Africa these positions are exchanged . There iron ranks as the fundamental metal ; gold being known to at least one Kafir tribe as yellow , ' silver as ' white , ' copper as ' red ' iron.2 And to these lin- guistic ...
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