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" ... 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 172
by Connop Thirlwall - 1855
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A History of Greece, Volume 1

Connop Thirlwall - Greece - 1845 - 1178 pages
...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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The American Whig Review, Volumes 7-8

1848 - 1390 pages
...Peloponnesus, and especially in Lnconia, 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 abductiou of Helen, Paris only repeats an —...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 1; Volume 7

1848 - 722 pages
...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 abductiou of Helen, Paris only repeats an exploit...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 1; Volume 7

1848 - 734 pages
...and especially in Laconia, and by the divine honors paid to her at Sparta and elsewhere. But a slill stronger reason for doubting the reality of the motive...Homer for the Trojan war is, that the same incident occurs in another circle of fictions, and that, in the abductiou of Helen, Paris only repeats an exploit...
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A History of All Nations, from the Earlier Periods to the Present ..., Volume 1

World history - 1851 - 614 pages
...ancient forms of religion in Greece, 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 legend, in which the abduction of Helen is ascribed to Theseus. According to another...
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Pieces of a Broken-down Critic: Picked Up by Himself, Volumes 1-4

Charles Astor Bristed - 1858 - 746 pages
...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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Pieces of a Broken-down Critic: Picked Up by Himself, Volumes 1-4

Charles Astor Bristed - 1858 - 732 pages
...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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Pieces of a Broken-down Critic: Picked Up by Himself, Volumes 1-4

Charles Astor Bristed - 1858 - 736 pages
...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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Pieces of a Broken-down Critic: Picked Up by Himself, Volumes 1-4

Charles Astor Bristed - 1858 - 744 pages
...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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Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age: Prolegomena. Achaeis or, The Ethnology ...

William Ewart Gladstone - Civilization, Homeric - 1858 - 600 pages
...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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