Who were the Greek captains and lords? The rank and file I could never name, Not even if I had ten tongues, ten mouths, A voice that never broke and a bronze heart, Unless the Olympian Muses, daughters Of Zeus Aegis-holder, called to my mind All those... Iliadvon Homer, Stanley Lombardo - 1997 - 574 SeitenKeine Leseprobe verfügbar - Über dieses Buch
| Andrew Laughlin Ford - 1994 - 244 Seiten
...and invokes the Muses to help him with this daunting task: Tell me now, Muses, who have your homes on Olympus — For you are goddesses, and are present, and know all, but we hear only kleos and do not know anything — who were the leaders and the lords of the Danaans;... | |
| Ευφροσύνη Σπέντζου, Don Fowler - 2002 - 340 Seiten
...as an embodiment of Bakhtin's notion of the superaddressee'. Tell me now Muses, who have your homes on Olympus, for you are goddesses, and are present, and know all, but we hear what is heard and see nothing-" ' We see nothing' has a radical meaning in the words of... | |
| Zahra Newby, Ruth Leader-Newby - 2007 - 29 Seiten
...prefaces his Catalogue of Ships by calling on the Muses: Tell me now, you Muses who have your homes on Olympus, for you are goddesses and are present and know all things.17 Similarly, Callimachus calls on the Muses to tell him whether oaks arose at the same time... | |
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