Familiar Studies in Homer
Clerke
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Clerke · 14 chapters
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- Literary English
- Everyday expressions
- Advanced vocabulary
- Long sentence structures
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The perennial youth of the Homeric poems is without a parallel in the history of art.
They are simple without being archaic, fervid without extravagance, fanciful, yet never grotesque.
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- PREFACE.Sample
- Chapter I. HOMER AS A POET AND AS A PROBLEM
- Chapter II. HOMERIC ASTRONOMY
- Chapter III. THE DOG IN HOMER
- Chapter IV. HOMERIC HORSES
- Chapter V. HOMERIC ZOOLOGY
- Chapter VI. TREES AND FLOWERS IN HOMER
- Chapter VII. HOMERIC MEALS
- Chapter VIII. HOMER’S MAGIC HERBS
- Chapter IX. THE METALS IN HOMER
- Chapter X. HOMERIC METALLURGY
- Chapter XI. AMBER, IVORY, AND ULTRAMARINE