Tully in his third Book of Tusculane Questions , having obferv'd that persons
oppress'd with woe naturally seek folitude , instances this example of
Bellerophon , and gives us his translation of two of these lines . Qui miser in
campis mærens ...
Author: Homerus
Publisher:
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Category: Achilles (Greek mythology)
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Chapter 1 Homer ' s world and the making of the Iliad 1 The Iliad and Mycenaean
civilisation Homer ' s Iliad tells of a punitive Greek expedition against Troy , led by
Agamemnon , king of Mycenae in southern Greece . The story is set in a ...
Author: M. S. Silk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521539968
Category: History
Page: 103
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CHAPTER TWO The Overture Book 3 is usually thought to serve a retrospective
function , recounting episodes through which the Iliad replays and evokes issues
associated with the beginning of the war . Though it undoubtedly does serve ...
Author: Bruce Louden
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801882807
Category: History
Page: 337
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He who is interested in “graduating” to other readings of The Iliad ofHomer, be
these in verse or in modern English, can availe of some of the references listed
here. This list is not necessarily exhaustive, but it may suffix most needs
regarding ...
Author: Jose D. Prezgonzlez
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411659546
Category: Fiction
Page: 216
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THE GODS OF THE ILIAD : AN AMPLIFICATION The Gods As Characters This
has been a study of the Iliad focused on character and plot ; in it the gods appear
as characters pretty much like the others . Such a reading may appear to miss ...
Author: James M. Redfield
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822314226
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 317
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After some years of work on formulae , type - scenes , and narrative patterns in
Homer , I was in the final stages of putting together a general book on the Iliad ,
which originated largely from teaching the poem to undergraduates . In this I
could ...
Author: Mark W. Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521312080
Category: Greek poetry
Page: 356
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The first four Books of the Iliad in context Some preliminary consideration of the
nature of each of the Books to be treated in this volume , and of their relation to
the Iliad as a whole , may be found useful . That in turn requires a brief
examination ...
Author: G. S. Kirk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521281713
Category: History
Page: 436
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History and fiction in the Iliad The historicity of the Iliad has been a matter of
continuing interest and concern ever since antiquity , with new impetus from
Robert Wood in the eighteenth century and Schliemann in the nineteenth . It can
hardly ...
Author: G. S. Kirk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521281720
Category: History
Page: 368
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The single combat of Hector and Ajar . The battle renewing with double ardour
upon the return of Hector , Minerva is under apprehensions for the Greeks .
Apollo , seeing her descend from Olympus , joins her near the Scæan gate : they
agree ...
Author: Homer
Publisher: Editions Artisan Devereaux
ISBN:
Category:
Page: 559
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From the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, Latin and Greek were
compulsory subjects in almost all European ... Homer: The. Iliad. Walter Leaf (
1852-1927) was a banker and classicist, whose various positions as chairman of
the ...
Author: Walter Leaf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108016863
Category: History
Page: 644
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3 Power , Force , and Authority πως τις τοι πρόφρων έπεσιν πείθηται Αχαιών how
shall any one of the Achaians readily obey you 1.150 Authority in the Iliad has
been understood frequently by placing its expression in the context of an already
...
Author: Dean Hammer
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133669
Category: Political Science
Page: 294
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-Balzac I Elucidating the background leading up to the development of Achilleus '
wrath , the Muse ( s ) -narrator in book i told the story of the wrath of Apollo ,
which serves as an Iliad in miniature , offering an introductory statement of the
theme ...
Author: Robert J. Rabel
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472107681
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 251
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