The Quarterly Review, Volume 226John Murray, 1916 |
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... questions con- nected with Homer then appeared to be . The Trojan War was regarded as much on the same footing as the ... question which immediately Vol . 226.-No. 448 . B attracted most attention was the exact relation between the Mycenæan.
... questions con- nected with Homer then appeared to be . The Trojan War was regarded as much on the same footing as the ... question which immediately Vol . 226.-No. 448 . B attracted most attention was the exact relation between the Mycenæan.
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... question whether any other gate is indicated by Homer . In three passages * we read of ' the Dardanian Gates ' ; and the meaning was discussed in antiquity . Aristarchus contended that this was only another name for the ' Scaan Gates ...
... question whether any other gate is indicated by Homer . In three passages * we read of ' the Dardanian Gates ' ; and the meaning was discussed in antiquity . Aristarchus contended that this was only another name for the ' Scaan Gates ...
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... question arises why ? For no spot would seem less marked out by nature for commercial prosperity than the plain of Hissarlik . With its marshes and malaria , it was a poor place compared with other plains in the Troad . Moreover ' there ...
... question arises why ? For no spot would seem less marked out by nature for commercial prosperity than the plain of Hissarlik . With its marshes and malaria , it was a poor place compared with other plains in the Troad . Moreover ' there ...
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... question for all navigation . Only a poor supply could be carried in the heavy earthen- ware jars on which the Greeks depended ; and so it was that a delay of even two or three days wind - bound on a coast where the water supply was in ...
... question for all navigation . Only a poor supply could be carried in the heavy earthen- ware jars on which the Greeks depended ; and so it was that a delay of even two or three days wind - bound on a coast where the water supply was in ...
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... question which must have been no less insistent in pre - Achæan days ; and the Hellespontine regions might well have attracted the ambitions of brave men before Agamemnon . In the second place , the conquest of Troy , apart from its ...
... question which must have been no less insistent in pre - Achæan days ; and the Hellespontine regions might well have attracted the ambitions of brave men before Agamemnon . In the second place , the conquest of Troy , apart from its ...
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