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... shows such moral greatness and insight that it must seem to every reader the most significant thing that has yet happened : ATHENA Seest thou , Odysseus , the power of the gods , how great it is ? What man couldst thou have found more ...
... shows such moral greatness and insight that it must seem to every reader the most significant thing that has yet happened : ATHENA Seest thou , Odysseus , the power of the gods , how great it is ? What man couldst thou have found more ...
Page 85
... shows prudence rather than romantic courage , so here he shows no altruism , no romantic generosity , but rather the large wisdom of a philosophic mind . As in the beginning he rose superior to Athena's temptations , so at the end he ...
... shows prudence rather than romantic courage , so here he shows no altruism , no romantic generosity , but rather the large wisdom of a philosophic mind . As in the beginning he rose superior to Athena's temptations , so at the end he ...
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... shows with which he purges the worldly exiles from Milan can be close to the very idea of such shows . Mr. Colin Still ( in The Timeless Theme ) has traced in them many ancient ritual themes . It is in this play that Shake- speare comes ...
... shows with which he purges the worldly exiles from Milan can be close to the very idea of such shows . Mr. Colin Still ( in The Timeless Theme ) has traced in them many ancient ritual themes . It is in this play that Shake- speare comes ...
Contents
HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
Sophocles | 78 |
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