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Page xiii
... Menelaus , from Paris , the son of Priam , King of Troy . As Menelaus was the brother of Agamemnon , the Emperor , so to speak , or recognised chief of the petty kingdoms of Greece , the whole force of these kingdoms was at his dis ...
... Menelaus , from Paris , the son of Priam , King of Troy . As Menelaus was the brother of Agamemnon , the Emperor , so to speak , or recognised chief of the petty kingdoms of Greece , the whole force of these kingdoms was at his dis ...
Page xviii
... Menelaus . Telemachus recognises the Goddess , and the first day closes . DAY 2 . Telemachus assembles the people , but he has not the heart to carry out Athene's advice . He cannot send the wooers away , nor turn his mother out of her ...
... Menelaus . Telemachus recognises the Goddess , and the first day closes . DAY 2 . Telemachus assembles the people , but he has not the heart to carry out Athene's advice . He cannot send the wooers away , nor turn his mother out of her ...
Page xix
... Menelaus tells how he himself came home in the eighth year after the fall of Troy . He had heard from Proteus , the Old Man of the Sea , that Odysseus was alive , and a captive on an island of the deep . Menelaus invites Telemachus to ...
... Menelaus tells how he himself came home in the eighth year after the fall of Troy . He had heard from Proteus , the Old Man of the Sea , that Odysseus was alive , and a captive on an island of the deep . Menelaus invites Telemachus to ...
Page 10
... Menelaus of the fair hair , for he came home the last of the mail - coated Achaeans . If thou shalt hear news of the life and the returning of thy father , then verily thou mayest endure the wasting for yet a year . But if thou shalt ...
... Menelaus of the fair hair , for he came home the last of the mail - coated Achaeans . If thou shalt hear news of the life and the returning of thy father , then verily thou mayest endure the wasting for yet a year . But if thou shalt ...
Page 35
... Menelaus charged all the Achaeans to bethink them of returning over the broad back of the sea , but in no sort did he please Agamemnon , whose desire was to keep back the host and to offer holy hecatombs , that so he might appease that ...
... Menelaus charged all the Achaeans to bethink them of returning over the broad back of the sea , but in no sort did he please Agamemnon , whose desire was to keep back the host and to offer holy hecatombs , that so he might appease that ...
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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 friends gifts goddess godlike grey-eyed Athene halls handmaids hands hath Hephaestus hither hollow ship Homer Howbeit Icarius isle Ithaca Laertes land lest lord maidens Melanthius Menelaus methinks mighty mother Nestor nigh noble Phaeacians Poseidon pray Pylos raiment renowned sails saying slain 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