The Age Of Homer Classic Reprint

Author : Hodder Michael Westropp
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ISBN 13 : 9781330516430
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Homer (Classic Reprint) written by Hodder Michael Westropp and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Age of Homer Mr. Paley and Mr. Sayce have put forward their views with regard to the late age of the Homeric poems (that is, of the texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey as we now have them) from a critical examination of their language. I would here wish to express in a few notes my further doubts with regard to the early date of the Homeric poems founded on the knowledge they evince of the art of a late date. Before discussing the date of the art as it appears in the poems, I shall endeavour to point out some evidences of the rudeness and imperfection of Greek civilization and language in the seventh century, about a century and a half after the supposed date of Homer. I must in the first place confess myself a thorough sceptic with regard to the early date usually assigned to the Iliad in its present form, and I accept the theories so convincingly put forward by Mr. Paley. The mythology, the art and science, the language appear far too advanced for an early period of literature. The mythology is too grand; the conceptions too magnificent for that period; the archaisms seem too often unreal, imitative and affected; besides, the arts which would have been required to carry out the conception of the Shield of Achilles would have been enough to task the genius of a Phidias. From what we know of the rudeness of Greek art in the seventh and sixth centuries B. C., there is every reason to believe About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Hodder Michael D. 1884 Westropp
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781360145846
Total Pages : 42 pages
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Download or read book The Age of Homer written by Hodder Michael D. 1884 Westropp and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Andrew Lang
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ISBN 13 : 9781330829431
Total Pages : 372 pages
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Download or read book Homer and His Age (Classic Reprint) written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Homer and His Age In Homer and the Epic, ten or twelve years ago, I examined the literary objections to Homeric unity. These objections are chiefly based on alleged discrepancies in the narrative, of which no one poet, it is supposed, could have been guilty. The critics repose, I venture to think, mainly on a fallacy. We may style it the fallacy of "the analytical reader." The poet is expected to satisfy a minutely critical reader, a personage whom he could not foresee, and whom he did not address. Nor are "contradictory instances" examined - that is, as Blass has recently reminded his countrymen, Homer is put to a test which Goethe could not endure. No long fictitious narrative can satisfy "the analytical reader." The fallacy is that of disregarding the Homeric poet's audience. He did not sing for Aristotle or for Aristarchus, or for modern minute and reflective inquirers, but for warriors and ladies. He certainly satisfied them; but if he does not satisfy microscopic professors, he is described as a syndicate of many minstrels, living in many ages. In the present volume little is said in defence of the poet's consistency. Several chapters on that point have been excised. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Alfred J. Church
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ISBN 13 : 9781331958420
Total Pages : 372 pages
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Download or read book Stories From Homer (Classic Reprint) written by Alfred J. Church and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories From Homer These "Stories" will, I hope, represent Homer not unfaithfully to readers, old and young, who do not know him in the original; may, perhaps, commend him to some of the younger sort who, having made acquaintance with him, do not find this acquaintance tend to love. We have given by way of illustration some of Flaxman's famous designs. These we have ventured to colour, hoping that by so doing we should render them more attractive, without transgressing any rule of art. The style of the outlines was suggested by the Etruscan vase painting, and Flaxman himself did some work of a similar kind for Wedgwood. Most of the vase paintings are in black and red, but there is authority for the employment of the buff tint. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : W. E. Gladstone
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ISBN 13 : 9781330629871
Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book Homer (Classic Reprint) written by W. E. Gladstone and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Homer I. Homer's Unique Position. - The poems of Homer do not constitute merely a great item of the splendid literature of Greece; but they have a separate position, to which none other can approach. They, and the manners they describe, constitute a world of their own; and are severed by a sea of time, whose breadth has not been certainly measured, from the firmly-set continent of recorded tradition and continuous fact. In this sea they lie, as a great island And in this island we find not merely details of events, but a scheme of human life and character, complete in all its parts. We are introduced to man in every relation of which he is capable; in every one of his arts, devices, institutions; in the entire circle of his experience. There is no other author, whose case is analogous to this, or of whom it can be said that the study of him is not a mere matter of literary criticism, but is a full study of life in every one of its departments. To rescue this circle of studies from inadequate conceptions, and to lay the ground for a true idea of them, I have proposed to term them Homerology. Of this Homerology, I shall now endeavour to present some of the first elements in their simplest form. And at the threshold, postponing for the moment our notice of the controversies involved in what is termed the Homeric question, let us see how far we can acquire an idea of the poet himself, and the conditions under which he lived. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William Cranston Lawton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
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Download or read book Art and Humanity in Homer written by William Cranston Lawton and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. C. Lawton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267675579
Total Pages : 206 pages
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Download or read book The Successors of Homer (Classic Reprint) written by W. C. Lawton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Successors of Homer B. The Hesiodic Poems, representing in their present form rather a school of didactic and theological poetry, than a single great singer. We, however, probably have before us, though both mutilated and interpolated, the two poems most generally accepted as authentic, and most influential, among the later ancients.4 The Successors of Homer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Thomas Blackwell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483587557
Total Pages : 426 pages
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Download or read book An Enquiry Into the Life and Writings of Homer (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas Blackwell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Enquiry Into the Life and Writings of Homer About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364302590
Total Pages : 362 pages
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Download or read book The World of Homer (Classic Reprint) written by Andrew Lang and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World of Homer The anatomical and conjectural analysis which has been applied so often and so long to the Homeric poems and other national epics, proceeds from an uni versal abstract principle, which is correct, and from a concrete application Of that principle, which is imagin ary and groundless. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : John Adams Scott
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656462308
Total Pages : 286 pages
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Download or read book The Unity of Homer (Classic Reprint) written by John Adams Scott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Unity of Homer Homer was such a master of dramatic narra tive that each character represents only himself. When once Nestor, Achilles, Helen, Hector, or Agamemnon has been brought into action, each seems to live his own life, free to act or to speak as he pleases, entirely detached from the mind which created him. The poet seems never to have made an allusion to contemporary events, so that it is impossible to assign him to a definite age; and his references to rivers, mountains, lands, and seas are so im personal, so involved in the story he is telling, that it is as difficult to name his home as it is to define his time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.