Homer and His Age

Lang

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• PrefaceSample
• THE HOMERIC AGE
• CHANSON DE ROLAND
• Chapter
• HYPOTHESES OF EPIC COMPOSITION
• DEATH OF HECTOR
• CHAPTER IV
• Book II., 443-483, and thence "skip" to XI. 56, and now "we have a
• Book XI., and it results in the fighting of the
• Book VII. of Her odotus, "The dream sent by the Gods to frighten Xerxes
• CHAPTER V
• CHAPTER VI
• Book XXIII.), Mr. Leaf says that Hector's burial is "almost an Abstract"
• HOMERIC ARMOUR
• THE BREASTPLATE
• Book X., called "very late": Mr. Leaf suggests that it is of the seventh
• Preface
• BRONZE AND IRON
• DID Homer's men smite with the iron?" Homer
• THE HOMERIC HOUSE
• CHAPTER XI
• LINGUISTIC PROOFS OF VARIOUS DATES
• Book IX., he does not use the
• AND ON THESE ALONE
• Book IX. (without which he said that he deemed an Achilleis
• Book XXIV. his ferocity is increased. Mr. Leaf shares Mr. Monro's view;
• CHAPTER XIII
• Book X., which may also be thought to explain why the Achaeans, so
• Book X. The poet was thinking of his audience, not of modern professors.
• Book IX. It is rather another case of a parallel rival to that Book,
• Book IX. 80, 84) "is needed as an introduction to Book X. but has nothing
• THE INTERPOLATIONS OF NESTOR
• THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EARLY EPICS
• PRIMER OF ENGLISH
• HOMER AND THE FRENCH MEDIAEVAL EPICS
• CHAPTER XVII