The Unity of Homer (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Homer was such a master of dramatic narra tive that each character represents only himself. When once Nestor, Achilles, Helen, Hector, or Agamemnon has been brought into action, each seems to live his own life, free to act or to speak as he pleases, entirely detached from the mind which created him.

The poet seems never to have made an allusion to contemporary events, so that it is impossible to assign him to a definite age; and his references to rivers, mountains, lands, and seas are so im personal, so involved in the story he is telling, that it is as difficult to name his home as it is to define his time.

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