Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age: Prolegomena. Achaeis or, The Ethnology of the Greek races

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Oxford University Press, 1858
 

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Стр. 397 - Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD GOD had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath GOD said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden...
Стр. 95 - If any man is inclined to call the unknown anteHellenic period of Greece by the name of Pelasgic, it is open to him to do so.
Стр. 36 - Homer are in the highest sense historical, as a record of ' manners and characters, feelings and tastes, races and countries, principles and institutions V 2. That there was a solid nucleus of fact in his account of the Trojan War. 3. That there did not yet exist adequate data for assigning to him, or to the Troltca, a place in -the established Chronology \ 4.
Стр. 6 - ... reappear, bright and fresh for application, among later generations of men. Others of them almost carry us back to the early morning of our race, the hours of its greater simplicity and purity, and more free intercourse with iii nl.
Стр. 28 - Why has Penelope a sister Iphthime,' who was wedded to Eumelus,' wanted for no other purpose than as a persona for Minerva in a dream ? y These questions, every one will admit, might be indefinitely multiplied.
Стр. 21 - Where other poets sketch, Homer draws; and where they draw, he carves. He alone, of all the now famous epic writers, moves (in the Iliad especially) subject to the stricter laws of time and place; he alone, while producing an unsurpassed work of the imagination, is also the greatest chronicler that ever lived, and presents to us, from his own single hand, a representation of life, manners, history, of morals, theology, and politics, so vivid and comprehensive, that it may be hard to say whether any...
Стр. 92 - Tu se' lo mio maestro e il mio autore: tu se' solo colui, da cui io tolsi lo bello stile, che m
Стр. 8 - But he has an excellent passage pointing out how the one may be regarded as supplementary to the other. Examining the history of the race, as regards the Greeks, it is Homer that furnishes the point of origin from which all distances are to be measured.
Стр. 6 - Homer, and is nowhere so vividly or so sincerely exhibited as in his works. He has a world of his own, into which, upon his strong wing, he carries us. There we find ourselves amidst a system of ideas, feelings, and actions, different from what are to be found anywhere else; and forming a new and distinct standard of humanity.
Стр. 550 - Now the result of all that we have drawn from Homer thus far would be to connect the Celts with the Pelasgi, with Media, and with the low Iranian countries ; the ' Germans ' with the Helli and with Persia.

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