The Odyssey of HomerMacmillan and Company, limited, 1917 - 429 pages |
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Page ix
... never a spoken language , nor , except for certain poetical purposes , a written language . Thus the Biblical English seems as nearly analogous to the Epic Greek , as anything that our tongue has to offer . The few foot - notes in this ...
... never a spoken language , nor , except for certain poetical purposes , a written language . Thus the Biblical English seems as nearly analogous to the Epic Greek , as anything that our tongue has to offer . The few foot - notes in this ...
Page xiv
... never heard of Homer . And when we find the story among Oghuzians , Esthonians , Basques , and Celts , it seems natural to suppose that these people did not break a fragment out of the Odyssey , but that the author of the Odyssey took ...
... never heard of Homer . And when we find the story among Oghuzians , Esthonians , Basques , and Celts , it seems natural to suppose that these people did not break a fragment out of the Odyssey , but that the author of the Odyssey took ...
Page xv
... never have been driven wander- ing for ten weary years . The prayers of the blinded Cyclops were heard and fulfilled by Poseidon . From the land of the Cyclops , Odysseus and his company sailed to the Isle of Aeolus , the king of the ...
... never have been driven wander- ing for ten weary years . The prayers of the blinded Cyclops were heard and fulfilled by Poseidon . From the land of the Cyclops , Odysseus and his company sailed to the Isle of Aeolus , the king of the ...
Page 8
... never man yet knew of himself his own descent . O that I had been the son of some blessed man , whom old age overtook among his own posses- sions ! But now of him that is the most hapless of mortal men , his son they say that I am ...
... never man yet knew of himself his own descent . O that I had been the son of some blessed man , whom old age overtook among his own posses- sions ! But now of him that is the most hapless of mortal men , his son they say that I am ...
Page 11
... never will I forget them . But now I pray thee abide , here , though eager to be gone , to the end that after thou hast bathed and had all thy heart's desire , thou mayst wend to the ship joyful in spirit , with a costly gift and very ...
... never will I forget them . But now I pray thee abide , here , though eager to be gone , to the end that after thou hast bathed and had all thy heart's desire , thou mayst wend to the ship joyful in spirit , with a costly gift and very ...
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abide Achaeans Aegisthus Alcinous Antinous Atreus bade behold beneath black ship Calypso cast chamber Circe counsels answered dear death deathless gods decked ships deeds deep didst doublet drave drew drink Dulichium earth Eumaeus Eupeithes Eurycleia Eurylochus Eurymachus evil fair father feast fell friends gifts goddess godlike grey-eyed Athene halls handmaids hands hath Hephaestus hither hollow ship Homer Icarius isle Ithaca Laertes land lest lord maidens Melanthius Menelaus methinks mighty mother Nestor nigh noble Phaeacians Poseidon pray Pylos raiment renowned sails saying slay sleep smote sorrow spake unto spear spirit steadfast goodly Odysseus stood straightway stranger sweet swift ship swine swineherd Teiresias tell thee thereof Therewith thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thyself took twain verily voice wandering Wherefore wife wind wine winged words wise Penelope wise Telemachus answered wooers Zeus