... whose worship seems to have been one of the most ancient forms of religion in Peloponnesus, and especially in Laconia, and by the divine honors paid to her at Sparta and elsewhere. But a still stronger reason for doubting the reality of the motive... The History of Greece - Page 172by Connop Thirlwall - 1855Full view - About this book
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...Peloponnesus, and especially in Laconia ; and by the divine honours paid to her at Sparta and elsewhere. t But a still stronger reason for doubting the reality...recurs in another circle of fictions, and that, in the abduclvou of Helen, Paris only repeats an exploit also attributed to Theseus. This adventure of the... | |
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...Peloponnesus, and especially in Laconia, and by the divine honors paid to her at Sparta and elsewhere. But a still stronger reason for doubting the reality...Homer for the Trojan war is, that the same incident occurs in another circle of fictions, and that, in the abduction of Helen, Paris only repeats an exploit... | |
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...Peloponnesus, and especially in Laconia, and by the divine honors paid to her at Sparta and elsewhere. But a still stronger reason for doubting the reality...Homer for the Trojan war is, that the same incident occurs in another circle of fictions, and that, in the. abduction of Helen, Paris only repeats an exploit... | |
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...doubting the reality of the motive assigned by Homer for the Trojan war is, that the same incident occurs in another circle of fictions, and that, in the abduction...only repeats an exploit also attributed to Theseus. ***** If however we reject the traditional occasion of the Trojan war, we are driven to conjecture... | |
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...doubting the reality of the motive assigned by Homer for the Trojan war is, that the same incident occurs in another circle of fictions, and that, in the abduction...only repeats an exploit also attributed to Theseus. ***** If however we reject the traditional occasion of the Trojan war, we are driven to conjecture... | |
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...adopts the latter alternative, upon various grounds. The strongest among them all, in his view, is, that ' in the abduction of Helen, Paris only repeats an exploit, also attributed to Theseus 8 .' This exploit, the Bishop thinks, was known to Homer, as he introduces ^Ethra, the mother of Theseus,... | |
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