This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...the Isle of the Blest really existed or not. They had their doubts too as to how Ehadamanthus would judge them, they themselves having abolished the means of forming a judgment upon any question.8... After a few days I got speech of Homer, and asked him what countryman he was. He said he was a Babylonian' and his real ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...the Isle of the Blest really existed or not. They had their doubts too as to how Ehadamanthus would judge them, they themselves having abolished the means of forming a judgment upon any question.8... After a few days I got speech of Homer, and asked him what countryman he was. He said he was a Babylonian' and his real name Tigranes. I begged him to say whether those verses now supposed on earth to be spurious were his or not; and he told me plainly they were all his own, and condemned the critics Zenodotus and Aristarchus and their school for their frigid criticisms.6 He 1 cireeiv en Kai 8iaaKciTrKTBai, ii. 18. K(irahupfidveiv: ib. 3 Kpcrflpiov: ib. When asked by Fielding where he was born, Homer said, ' upon my soul, I cannot tell' Journey from, this World to the Next, p. 19. 5 'I proposed, ' says Swift, 'that Homer and Aristotle might appear at the head of all their commentators; but these were so numerous, that some hundreds were forced to attend in the court and outward rooms of the palace.... Homer was the taller and comelier person of the two, walked very erect for one of his age, and said that the mention of 'anger' in the first line of the 1 Iliad' was purely accidental, and that the 'Iliad' was written before the 'Odyssey.' Many other questions he answered quite frankly, and he discoursed freely upon the charges of abusing and scoffing at Thersites, which the latter had laid against him before Ehadamanthus. Ulysses acted as advocate for Homer, and the grand old poet was acquitted.... While we were there, the games of the Blest, or Thanatusia, came off. I cannot remember all the details, but I do remember that, although Homer's verses were indisputably the best, Hesiod won the prize for poetry. Hardly were the games ended when news was brought that t...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Date is unspecified. Facsimile of original work. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 450grams, ISBN: 9781358596001.
