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... Troy divine ' was already a full - leaved tree when he plucked from it and planted the branches destined to flourish through the ages . His verses display or betray acquaintance with many other stories ' of public notoriety besides ...
... Troy divine ' was already a full - leaved tree when he plucked from it and planted the branches destined to flourish through the ages . His verses display or betray acquaintance with many other stories ' of public notoriety besides ...
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... Troy ! and yet she holds us still . ' But the saga - literature of the Greeks did not begin with the mustering of the fleet at Aulis . The ante- Troica ' were not neglected . Many a ballad was chanted about the doings of those ' strong ...
... Troy ! and yet she holds us still . ' But the saga - literature of the Greeks did not begin with the mustering of the fleet at Aulis . The ante- Troica ' were not neglected . Many a ballad was chanted about the doings of those ' strong ...
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... tribes from the north . The generally accepted date for the final event is eighty years after the taking of Troy , or 1104 n.c. But this rests on no authentic circumstance , and may very well be a cen- 16 FAMILIAR STUDIES IN HOMER .
... tribes from the north . The generally accepted date for the final event is eighty years after the taking of Troy , or 1104 n.c. But this rests on no authentic circumstance , and may very well be a cen- 16 FAMILIAR STUDIES IN HOMER .
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... Troy . They could not have been omitted by a poet of supreme genius - could not , since the imagination has its logical necessities , among which may be reckoned that of equilibration . There is accordingly no possibility of founding a ...
... Troy . They could not have been omitted by a poet of supreme genius - could not , since the imagination has its logical necessities , among which may be reckoned that of equilibration . There is accordingly no possibility of founding a ...
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... Troy , A thousand on the plain ; and close by each Sat fifty in the blaze of burning fire ; And eating hoary grain and pulse , the steeds , Fixt by their cars , waited the golden dawn . ' Here , as elsewhere , the simile no sooner ...
... Troy , A thousand on the plain ; and close by each Sat fifty in the blaze of burning fire ; And eating hoary grain and pulse , the steeds , Fixt by their cars , waited the golden dawn . ' Here , as elsewhere , the simile no sooner ...
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¹ Iliad ¹ Odyssey Abth accordingly Achæan Achilles acquaintance Agamemnon Alcinous amber ancient animal antiquity Aphrodite archæological armour Aryans Asia Minor asphodel association beasts birds Boötes bronze brought Buchholz canine century B.C. chalkos chariot civilisation connexion copper coursers Crown 8vo cyanus Diomed divine early Egypt Egyptian Epics epoch equine Eumæus fact flowers gold golden Greece Greek hand Hayman's Hector Hehn and Stallybrass Helen Hellespont Hephaestus hero Herodotus Hesiod Hissarlik HISTORY Homeric poems horses human Hyades Iliad Iliad and Odyssey Illustrations iron Ithaca ivory kind king less lion means Menelaus ment metal Mycenae Mycenaean mythology nature Odyssean Odyssey Olympus origin Patroclus Pausanias Peloponnesus Phoenician plant poet Poseidon prehistoric Priam primitive probably Realien recognised regarded scarcely scene Schliemann Schuchhardt and Sellers shield silver spear species stars steeds Telemachus tion tradition trans tree Troad Trojan Troy verses wild wine Zeus
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