The Quarterly Review, Volume 226John Murray, 1916 |
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Page 8
... taken together are another indication of the general accuracy of Homer's conception of Troy . It was The royal Palace has not been discovered . probably situated in the centre of the castle on ground which has been entirely levelled ...
... taken together are another indication of the general accuracy of Homer's conception of Troy . It was The royal Palace has not been discovered . probably situated in the centre of the castle on ground which has been entirely levelled ...
Page 12
... taken by the Greeks . And it must have been taken much in the way which Homer describes , by a process of wearing down . A war of Troy therefore is a necessary deduction from purely geographical conditions ; and the account of it in ...
... taken by the Greeks . And it must have been taken much in the way which Homer describes , by a process of wearing down . A war of Troy therefore is a necessary deduction from purely geographical conditions ; and the account of it in ...
Page 14
... taken no part in the Trojan War . Probably it was a work of the Hesiodic period and need not be later than 800 B.C. , for Mr Allen has recently brought forward very forcible arguments for assigning to Hesiod a date a hundred years prior ...
... taken no part in the Trojan War . Probably it was a work of the Hesiodic period and need not be later than 800 B.C. , for Mr Allen has recently brought forward very forcible arguments for assigning to Hesiod a date a hundred years prior ...
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... taken by the old minstrels , and the later inventions wrought by the art of Homer into the woof which they bequeathed to him . To pene- trate so far into the secrets of the epic is perhaps beyond human powers of analysis , but it may ...
... taken by the old minstrels , and the later inventions wrought by the art of Homer into the woof which they bequeathed to him . To pene- trate so far into the secrets of the epic is perhaps beyond human powers of analysis , but it may ...
Page 19
... Burgundian legend , may be taken as an illustration of the powerful influence of defeat . Mr Leaf , who refers to Dietrich more than once , adopts the usual view 6 that the legend associated him with Bern ' because C 2 THE TROJAN WAR 19.
... Burgundian legend , may be taken as an illustration of the powerful influence of defeat . Mr Leaf , who refers to Dietrich more than once , adopts the usual view 6 that the legend associated him with Bern ' because C 2 THE TROJAN WAR 19.
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