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id: 26275
title: Homer''s Odyssey A Commentary
author: Snider, Denton Jaques
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  man''s insight is just the word of the God. The remaining circumstances of the Book group themselves around the two present Book connects him intimately with the return of Ulysses, and Book several phases of the Return; Nestor, Menelaus, Ulysses are all instinctive pre-Trojan character still, being an old man; but Ulysses also the Old Man of the Sea tells him a few words concerning Ulysses, sea which stands in the way of the return of Ulysses is a deity, grand division of the poem, the Odyssey proper, or Return of Ulysses. The answer of Ulysses reveals the man in his present stale of mind. Book Ulysses and his companions were the Present to which the Past previous to the present Book: when Ulysses comes back to the world of Ulysses has both these worlds in him; he is the man of thought and the The second part of the present Book gives the movements of Ulysses,


id: 658
title: The Fall of Troy
author: Quintus, Smyrnaeus, active 4th century
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  A battle-fury like the War-god''s wrath Thee not thy sire the War-god now shall pluck All round the Trojan men''s heart-stricken wail, How Memnon, Son of the Dawn, for Troy''s sake fell in the Battle. Closed round the corpse of strong-heart Aeacus'' son, Their tears fell round the dead man, Aeacus'' son; Though Peleus'' son hath died, shall have small heart And Atreus'' son, lord of all Argive men, Till Aias locked his strong hands round the son Who lost a son, slain by the hands of foes, "O valiant-hearted son, so like thy sire, Son of the man whose long spear smote thy sire, Than all strong Gods, all weakling sons of men. The mighty men of Troy: with heart and soul Then the strong Argives'' battle-eager sons With a good heart: war-staunch Achilles'' son "Fierce-hearted son of Achilles strong in war, Thy noble son: thee shall our loving hands


id: 7972
title: Homer and His Age
author: Lang, Andrew
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  most Homeric critics, the later continuators of the Greek Epics, about of the rule so far as to suppose that the late Homeric poets, being hand, he says that the later poets of the _Iliad_ did not cling to Here (_Iliad_, Book II., line 50) the kernel ceases, Mr. Leaf says, and by late rhapsodists in the Iron Age, who keep the great obsolete shields Small shields of the Greek historic period are "unknown to Homer," Mr. Leaf says, "with a very few curious exceptions," [Footnote: _Iliad_, The theory of critics is that late poets introduced the bronze _thorex_ ''shield.''" [Footnote: Leaf, _Iliad_, vol. His late poets, in the age of iron, always say that the weapons of the passages" in the _Iliad_ by the poet of the _Odyssey_, we shall not un-Homeric." [Footnote: Leaf, _Iliad_, vol. The poet of Book X., however late, knows the _ILIAD_ well, for he keeps _Iliad_ [Footnote: Homer, pp.


id: 13725
title: Stories from the Odyssey
author: Homer
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  he; tall thou art, and fair, and shouldst be a stout man of thy hands. shall lose thee too, for the suitors will plot thy ruin while thou art "Thou sayest well," answered Mentor, "and Telemachus shall be thy "''Hear, then,'' said he: ''thou hast forgotten thy duty to Zeus and the Thou hast thy wish; I will let thee go with all await thee before thou reachest thy home, and all the perils prepared surely thou hast not brought it with thee in thy voyage across the "Of a truth," said Odysseus, addressing Alcinous, "thou hast not the end of thy toils, and death shall come softly upon thee where thou thou must guide thy ship, Odysseus. "Thou sayest well," answered Odysseus; "and ere long the wooers shall Hast thou never heard how thy father came to this "It is hard," answered Odysseus, "to tell thee of what thou askest,


