Homeric Essays (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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I must apologize at once to them and other readers for the prolixity and the repetition that will be observed, and can only plead in extenuation the weakness of old age, which has prevented me from recasting the contents of the volume in a more conveniently readable form.

Just after the middle of last century, as Dr. F arnell has recently remarked, 1 when Schliemann began to excavate 'the German scholarship of the day was still 1n the quagmire, and it was Schliemann who 'contributed more than any of his countrymen to the saner and truer interpretation of the Homeric world. The View Opened up by that early explorer has been steadily widened by the work of many eminent successors, with the result of an ever increasing respect on the part of archaeologists generally for the Homeric poems as the trustworthy record of an age. And this by the end of last century was beginning to have so marked an effect on the destructive criticism of the poems that had become so popular, that a reaction set in against its methods even in Germany, the place of 1ts origin. 'there 1t is, whether we like it or not' was the candid admission of one German authority, when this recovery was established.

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