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Homeric Values and Homeric Society

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1971
Dr Long's interest in my work (JHS xc [1970] 121–39; hereafter referred to as ‘Long’) is naturally very welcome; but it seems to me to require further comment in its turn. In order to advance the discussion, I shall be compelled to refer on a number of occasions to what I have written elsewhere in articles, and indeed on other pages of Merit and ...
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Homeric Words and Homeric Ideas

2000
Abstract John Donne writes as if it were self-evident that man 1s a combination of two things, first the ‘elements’ of the physical body and then the soul hidden inside it. In that belief he shows that he is steeped in Christian and classical tradition; and to this day in Europe and America the conventions of language, thought, and ...
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Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age

2010
Four-time prime minister William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) was also a prolific author and enthusiastic scholar of the classics. Gladstone had spent almost two decades in politics prior to his writing the three-volume Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age.
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Homer

2001
Abstract The early Greeks envisaged the world as encircled by the mighty freshwater river of Ocean, and held that all springs and streams derived from him. Ocean became their image for Homer: all poetry and eloquence derived from him as he surrounded and encompassed their thought-world.
Warren Anderson, Thomas J. Mathiesen, Robert Anderson   +2 more
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Homer on Poetry and the Poetry of Homer

1996
Abstract ‘We pedants know better. ‘ These leaden and ironic words form part of E. Housman ‘s attempt to show that textual scholarship and literary criticism are two very different, or even incompatible, skills. The immediate issue was Matthew Arnold ‘s translation of Iliad 24, line 506.
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‘Essentially Circe’: Spenser, Homer, and the Homeric Tradition

Translation and Literature, 2006
Du tout change ma Circe enchanteresse Dedens ses fers m'enferre emprisonne, Non par le goust d'un vin empoisonne, Ny par le just d'une herbe pecheresse. Du fin Gregeoys l'espee vangeresse, Et le Moly par Mercure ordonne, En peu de temps du breuvage donne, Forcerent bien la force charmeresse, Si qu'a la fin le Dulyche troupeau Reprint l'honneur de sa ...
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Homeric Gods and the Values of Homeric Society

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1972
A recent article has observed, with particular reference to the Homeric poems, that ‘divine intervention <cannot> be simply removed from the poems to leave a kernel of sociological truths’. I agree; though I should interpret the words in a manner different from their author.
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Three Passages in Homer, and the Homeric Legacy

The Antioch Review, 1965
and therefore necessarily higher or better than passion. In short, he should be a philosopher-king. Now for Plato government within the state is politics, government between men is ethics, government within the individual is This content downloaded from 157.55.39.113 on Wed, 14 Dec 2016 05:04:28 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 8o ...
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Homeric and Un‐Homeric Hexameter Hymns

2011
AbstractThis chapter explores the relationship of the Homeric Hymns to other early hexameter hymns and their possible genesis from theogonic hymns and cult myth. Comparison is made between the Hymns and Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days, but also to the evidence for an Orphic hymnic theogony contained in the Derveni papyrus and the mock bird ...
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Homer and the Homeric Tradition

The American Journal of Philology, 1959
L. A. MacKay, Cedric H. Whitman
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