Homer and His InfluenceLongmans, Green and Company, 1931 - 169 Seiten |
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... gods responsible for both the good and the bad . Homer's gods would have presented a far holier aspect , if there had been in the poet's mind a Devil who was solely responsible for the immoral and ignoble acts of men . The Homeric gods ...
... gods responsible for both the good and the bad . Homer's gods would have presented a far holier aspect , if there had been in the poet's mind a Devil who was solely responsible for the immoral and ignoble acts of men . The Homeric gods ...
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... gods seem only remotely connected with righteousness , and the prayers always assume that the one praying has put the gods under some obligation and thus the prayer is a demand for the repayment of a favor . The first prayer of the ...
... gods seem only remotely connected with righteousness , and the prayers always assume that the one praying has put the gods under some obligation and thus the prayer is a demand for the repayment of a favor . The first prayer of the ...
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... gods had gone to a long revel with the Ethi- opians and could not be consulted , — a flat denial of their omnipresence . - The evident immorality and helplessness of the Homeric gods early caused heart - burnings in the devout admirers ...
... gods had gone to a long revel with the Ethi- opians and could not be consulted , — a flat denial of their omnipresence . - The evident immorality and helplessness of the Homeric gods early caused heart - burnings in the devout admirers ...
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Achilles actors Aeneas Aeneid Agamemnon Ajax ancient Andromache anger archer Aristotle armor artist Athena beauty Briseis century Chapman characters Cicero Circe civilization companions Comus contest creation criticism dactyls death Diomede divine Dryden early English Ennius epic cycle epic poetry familiar famous father fire genius glory gods Greece Greek Hector Helen Hellas hence Hephaestus hero heroic Hesiod hexameter Homeric poems Homeric poetry Homeric verse honor Horace Iliad influence of Homer Italy JOHN knowledge of Homer language Latin literary literature Maeonides melody Menelaus meter Milton native Nestor never Odyssey Olympus original Paradise Lost Paris passages Patroclus Petrarch poet poetic poetry of Homer Pope Pope's prose Proteus quotations quoted referred regarding Roman Rome scene scholars seems Shakespeare single Sirens song Sophocles speech story tells Tennyson theme theology things thou tion tradition translation Trojans Troy Ulysses University Virgil Walter Leaf WILLIAM words wrath writings wrote Zeus