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Page 85
... beginning he rose superior to Athena's temptations , so at the end he rises superior to the common morality of the Atreidae and gives burial honours to a dead foe and condemned criminal . Odysseus therefore is no mere dramatic ...
... beginning he rose superior to Athena's temptations , so at the end he rises superior to the common morality of the Atreidae and gives burial honours to a dead foe and condemned criminal . Odysseus therefore is no mere dramatic ...
Page 194
... beginning of the Iliad and the begin- ning of the Odyssey for the beginning of the Aeneid ; and to the surprise of many made the result great . There is , meanwhile , a frequent assertion , not from scholars but from poets , of the ...
... beginning of the Iliad and the begin- ning of the Odyssey for the beginning of the Aeneid ; and to the surprise of many made the result great . There is , meanwhile , a frequent assertion , not from scholars but from poets , of the ...
Page 268
... beginning , that we should not try to explain motion and life by their natural antecedents , for these run back in infinitum . We should explain motion and life rather by their purpose or end , by that unrealized ideal which moving and ...
... beginning , that we should not try to explain motion and life by their natural antecedents , for these run back in infinitum . We should explain motion and life rather by their purpose or end , by that unrealized ideal which moving and ...
Contents
HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
HOMER Odysseus Scar | 30 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
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