The Rise of the Greek Epic: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at Harvard UniversityClarendon Press, 1907 - 283 pagina's |
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The Rise of the Greek Epic: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at Harvard ... Gilbert Murray Volledige weergave - 1907 |
The Rise of the Greek Epic: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at Harvard ... Gilbert Murray Volledige weergave - 1907 |
The Rise of the Greek Epic: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at Harvard ... Gilbert Murray Volledige weergave - 1911 |
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Achaean Achilles Aegean Aeolic Aeschylus Agamemnon Aidôs ancient Apollo Argos Athenian Athens barbarous bards battle beauty Boeotia breastplate bronzen called Carians century cities classical course Crete dead Diomedes early emotion enemies epic Epos evidence expurgation father feel fiction fighting Ganelon goddess gods Greece Greek poetry hand Hector Hellenic Heracles hero Hesiod Homer human sacrifice Iliad imagination instance Ionian Ionic J. E. Harrison king language later Lecture legend literature living mean migration Minos Mycenae Mycenaean northern Odyssey original passage Pelasgian Peloponnese perhaps pharmakoi pharmakos poem poet pre-Hellenic primitive race religion Roland saga seems shield slain slave sort spear spirit story strange thalassocracy Thebes Thessaly thing Thracian tion traditional book tribal tribe Trojan Troy various whole women word worship writers Yahweh Zeus δὲ ἐν καὶ τε τὸν τοῦ τῶν
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Pagina 131 - And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el. 20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
Pagina 157 - But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet ; and Abiezer was gathered after him. And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, who also was gathered after him, and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali, and they came up to meet them. And Gideon said unto GOD, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said...
Pagina 115 - God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day. 20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Pagina 269 - Hispania peracta essent, et prospero itinere reditum esset, infortunio obviante extremi quidam in eodem monte regii caesi sunt agminis. Quorum, quia vulgata sunt, nomina dicere supersedi.
Pagina 93 - And again, on any occasion when a person came [in my way] who had been a follower of the elders, I would inquire about the discourses of the elders — what was said by Andrew, or by Peter, or by Philip, or by Thomas or James, or by John or Matthew, or any other of the Lord's disciples, and what Aristion and the elder John, the disciples of the Lord, say. For I did not think that I could get so much profit from the contents of books as from the utterances of a living and abiding vo'ice.
Pagina 55 - A chaos in which an old civilization is shattered into fragments, its laws set at naught, and that intricate web of normal expectation which forms the very essence of human society torn so often and so utterly by continued disappointment that at last there ceases to be any normal expectation at all.
Pagina 274 - Bons fut li siecles al tens ancienor, Quer feit i ert e justise et amor, Si ert credance, dont or n'i at nul prot : Tot est mudez, perdude at sa color ; Ja mais n'iert tels com fut as anceisors.
Pagina 80 - rues ' the deed and is haunted by it. If he has not done it, he refrains from doing it. And this, not because any one forces him, nor yet because any particular result will accrue to him afterwards. But simply because he feels aidos.
Pagina 90 - Callimachus' great poem, they saw early the world that is behind the ordinary world of human strivings, more real and more intangible: and throughout their history somehow this ideal haunted the race, a vision perturbing then- sight, unfitting them for continued empire, yet shedding strangely over their defeat a splendour denied to their conquerors.
Pagina 2 - Eridani per silvam volvitur amnis. hic manus ob patriam pugnando vulnera passi, 25 quique sacerdotes casti, dum vita manebat, quique pii vates et Phoebo digna locuti, inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artis, quique sui memores alios fecere merendo : omnibus his nivea cinguntur tempora vitta.