The Greek Epic (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Greek Epic

In the first chapter the evidences for the early history of Greece are reviewed in connection with the recent discoveries on ancient sites. This historical preface is followed by an introductory survey of the 'iliad and Odyssey (chap. In the third and the fourth chapters the two poems themselves are presented in a continuous summary, so arranged as to indicate the successive stages in their growth, and accompanied by detailed explanations in immediate connection with the text. In the last two chapters the Hesiodic poems are treated on the same method and somewhat minutely, this branch of the Epic being much less familiar, even to scholars. The loss of literary form caused by this treatment is, I hope, compensated by the benefit of more direct illustra tion and the closer view of the original furnished through the summary and the translations with which it is interspersed.

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