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... tradition . They had doubtless been elabo- rated and manipulated , before Homer took them in hand , by generations of singers and reciters . The ' tale of Troy divine ' was already a full - leaved tree when he plucked from it and ...
... tradition . They had doubtless been elabo- rated and manipulated , before Homer took them in hand , by generations of singers and reciters . The ' tale of Troy divine ' was already a full - leaved tree when he plucked from it and ...
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... tradition regarding him reached posterity . The very name of ' Homer , ' or the ' joiner together , ' is obviously rather typical than personal ; and it gradually came to aggregate round it all that was antique and unclaimed in the way ...
... tradition regarding him reached posterity . The very name of ' Homer , ' or the ' joiner together , ' is obviously rather typical than personal ; and it gradually came to aggregate round it all that was antique and unclaimed in the way ...
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... traditional or ancestral associations might have been employed for the ordinary purposes of everyday life long before it was allowed to form part of sepulchral equipments ; a similar motive prescribing its virtual exclusion from the ...
... traditional or ancestral associations might have been employed for the ordinary purposes of everyday life long before it was allowed to form part of sepulchral equipments ; a similar motive prescribing its virtual exclusion from the ...
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... tradition alone preserved them ; and not the punctilious oral tradition of a sacerdotal caste like the Brahmins , but that of a bold and innovating class of rhapsodes , ' themselves aspiring to some share in the Muse's im- mediate ...
... tradition alone preserved them ; and not the punctilious oral tradition of a sacerdotal caste like the Brahmins , but that of a bold and innovating class of rhapsodes , ' themselves aspiring to some share in the Muse's im- mediate ...
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... ; while the ' embryon atoms ' from which they sprang , German critics doubt the fact . See Niese , Die Entwickelung der Homerischen Poesie , p . 5 . of legends , stories , myths , and traditions , C 2 HOMER AS A POET AND AS A PROBLEM . 19.
... ; while the ' embryon atoms ' from which they sprang , German critics doubt the fact . See Niese , Die Entwickelung der Homerischen Poesie , p . 5 . of legends , stories , myths , and traditions , C 2 HOMER AS A POET AND AS A PROBLEM . 19.
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