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... Homer is distasteful to us if he does not seem to be in touch with the essentials of life as we know it . When the ... Homer's . For just as there must be mediate terms in which the modern col- laborates to recreate the heroic , so the ...
... Homer is distasteful to us if he does not seem to be in touch with the essentials of life as we know it . When the ... Homer's . For just as there must be mediate terms in which the modern col- laborates to recreate the heroic , so the ...
Page 133
... Homer must be dealt with according to this rule : these epithets come quite naturally in Homer's poetry ; in English poetry they , in nine cases out of ten , come when literally rendered , quite unnaturally . ( On Translating Homer ) Homer ...
... Homer must be dealt with according to this rule : these epithets come quite naturally in Homer's poetry ; in English poetry they , in nine cases out of ten , come when literally rendered , quite unnaturally . ( On Translating Homer ) Homer ...
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... Homer . It is simply not true that " Homer , Epictetus and Sophocles had to be seen in contrast to Victorian England and remote from its worries and distractions . ” On the contrary : the movement from Homer to Epictetus becomes , for ...
... Homer . It is simply not true that " Homer , Epictetus and Sophocles had to be seen in contrast to Victorian England and remote from its worries and distractions . ” On the contrary : the movement from Homer to Epictetus becomes , for ...
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NATURE AND THE WORLD OF MAN | 9 |
GREEK LITERATURE | 32 |
TWO FROM ARCHILOCHUS | 54 |
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