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... centuries of pre - literary culture . Greek hexameter verse was by no means an obvious contrivance . It is an exceed- ingly subtle structure , depending for its effect - nay , for its existence - upon unvarying obedience to a complex ...
... centuries of pre - literary culture . Greek hexameter verse was by no means an obvious contrivance . It is an exceed- ingly subtle structure , depending for its effect - nay , for its existence - upon unvarying obedience to a complex ...
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... centuries . The people who moved and suffered , and nurtured their loves and grudges in it , were called ' Achæans ' - the ethnical title given by Homer to his countrymen from all parts of the Greek peninsula and its adjacent islands ...
... centuries . The people who moved and suffered , and nurtured their loves and grudges in it , were called ' Achæans ' - the ethnical title given by Homer to his countrymen from all parts of the Greek peninsula and its adjacent islands ...
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... centuries . Mr. Petrie , indeed , finds himself compelled to believe that the Græco - Libyan league was already active in or before the year 2000 B.C. Achæan predominance may , then , very well have boasted a millennium of anti- quity ...
... centuries . Mr. Petrie , indeed , finds himself compelled to believe that the Græco - Libyan league was already active in or before the year 2000 B.C. Achæan predominance may , then , very well have boasted a millennium of anti- quity ...
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... centuries before the Christian era , was in many respects more refined than that depicted in the poems . It was known to their author only after it had lost something of its pristine splendour . But the Mycenæan civilisation of his ...
... centuries before the Christian era , was in many respects more refined than that depicted in the poems . It was known to their author only after it had lost something of its pristine splendour . But the Mycenæan civilisation of his ...
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... century , and the overthrow of Mycena near its close . Difficulties of sundry kinds can thus be , in a measure , evaded or conciliated , without encroach- ing overmuch on the voiceless centuries available for the unrecorded readjustment ...
... century , and the overthrow of Mycena near its close . Difficulties of sundry kinds can thus be , in a measure , evaded or conciliated , without encroach- ing overmuch on the voiceless centuries available for the unrecorded readjustment ...
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