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Page 109
... original form ? It looks probable enough , indeed it may be regarded as certain ; for Heracles has no original connexion with Pherae , he comes from farther south . But he has not been thrust into the Alcestis legend without other ...
... original form ? It looks probable enough , indeed it may be regarded as certain ; for Heracles has no original connexion with Pherae , he comes from farther south . But he has not been thrust into the Alcestis legend without other ...
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... original forms of Greek comedy and tragedy ( which , to begin with , was as much as comedy a choral performance ) were singularly alike . Perhaps they were the same . Perhaps this original form survived under modification in the satyr ...
... original forms of Greek comedy and tragedy ( which , to begin with , was as much as comedy a choral performance ) were singularly alike . Perhaps they were the same . Perhaps this original form survived under modification in the satyr ...
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... original and in Mr. Long's translation , the seventh chapter of the tenth book ; he will see how , through all the dubiousness and involved manner of the Greek , Mr. Long has firmly seized upon the clear thought which is certainly at ...
... original and in Mr. Long's translation , the seventh chapter of the tenth book ; he will see how , through all the dubiousness and involved manner of the Greek , Mr. Long has firmly seized upon the clear thought which is certainly at ...
Contents
HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
HOMER Odysseus Scar | 30 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
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