Excerpt from The Rise of the Greek Epic: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at Harvard University The surface corruption already ably treated of late years by such editors as Van Leeuwen and Professor Platt, is the subject of many clever and interesting conjectures in Mr. Agar's Homerica. Perhaps I may be allowed to urge every student who wishes either to study the language or to enjoy the music of Homer to accustom himself to thinking away this destructive and often unmetrical surface-corruption. For English readers the ...
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Excerpt from The Rise of the Greek Epic: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at Harvard University The surface corruption already ably treated of late years by such editors as Van Leeuwen and Professor Platt, is the subject of many clever and interesting conjectures in Mr. Agar's Homerica. Perhaps I may be allowed to urge every student who wishes either to study the language or to enjoy the music of Homer to accustom himself to thinking away this destructive and often unmetrical surface-corruption. For English readers the best method is a constant reference to such texts as I have mentioned above, together with an occasional reading of F ick. The outline of this problem, as of most others affecting Homer, will be found in Father Browne's Homeric Study (macmillan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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