The Quarterly Review, Volumes 246-247William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1926 |
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... stories belong professedly to the sphere of poetical mythology -- the ghosts in Homer and in the Attic tragedians . But even such stories will conform to the general ideas , held at the time , about appearances of the dead - for ...
... stories belong professedly to the sphere of poetical mythology -- the ghosts in Homer and in the Attic tragedians . But even such stories will conform to the general ideas , held at the time , about appearances of the dead - for ...
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... stories we do hear of the appearance of a hero . Some- times it is a beneficent hero . At the battle of Marathon , says a legend recorded in Plutarch , ' not a few of the fighters believed that they saw in ... story was. CLASSICAL GHOSTS 61.
... stories we do hear of the appearance of a hero . Some- times it is a beneficent hero . At the battle of Marathon , says a legend recorded in Plutarch , ' not a few of the fighters believed that they saw in ... story was. CLASSICAL GHOSTS 61.
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... story was told on the spot to Pausanias in the second century A.D. some 600 years after the event , but an old painting of the fifth century B.C. showed the figure of the hero Echetlus or Echetlæus in the Greek ranks . Browning , it may ...
... story was told on the spot to Pausanias in the second century A.D. some 600 years after the event , but an old painting of the fifth century B.C. showed the figure of the hero Echetlus or Echetlæus in the Greek ranks . Browning , it may ...
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... stories , however , are only legends , picked up by antiquaries like Pausanias from the mouths of the people many generations after the events were supposed to have occurred . Can we connect ghost- stories with any of the persons we ...
... stories , however , are only legends , picked up by antiquaries like Pausanias from the mouths of the people many generations after the events were supposed to have occurred . Can we connect ghost- stories with any of the persons we ...
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... stories of Dio and Brutus are of a very different character from the popular legends we were considering just now . The account in Plutarch is drawn from the writings of contemporaries who had * One may notice that the story is changed ...
... stories of Dio and Brutus are of a very different character from the popular legends we were considering just now . The account in Plutarch is drawn from the writings of contemporaries who had * One may notice that the story is changed ...
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