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Page 595 - Caesar and Napoleon ; he then takes another portion, and identifies it with Sesonchosis, a king of the twelfth dynasty ; a third portion of Sesostris is finally assigned to himself. It seems that these three fragments make up the entire Sesostris...
Page 17 - ... between them could never be passed. The stranger remained a stranger for ever. The members of the old Hellenic tribes were beyond doubt closely connected by ties of kindred as by their speech, their habits, their laws, their tastes, and their occupations. Yet out of the bounds of his own city each was an alien who had no proper claim to the protection of the laws, who could not become an owner of land in a soil sacred to the worship of gods not his own, and who could not inherit from the citizens,...
Page 579 - From the beginning to the end we trace an ethical or religious purpose overlying or putting out of sight all political causes and motives, and substituting appeals to exploits done in the mythical ages for less fictitious but more substantial services. Throughout we find narratives constructed to meet a popular saying or illustrate a popular belief. We find national struggles, which are beyond doubt historical, enlivened by imaginary combats of well-chosen champions; and momentous national changes...
Page 369 - So incalculably great has been the influence of Grecian development, during the two centuries between 500-300 BC, on the destinies of mankind, that we cannot pass without notice a contingency which threatened to arrest that development in the bud ; indeed it may be remarked that the history of any nation, considered as a sequence of causes and effects affording applicable knowledge, requires us to study not merely real events, but also imminent contingencies — events which were on the point of...
Page 17 - ... own state then (and his state was strictly the city) could he live under the protection of law, that is, of religion. Anywhere else he must lead, in literal strictness of speech, an utterly godless life. Hence the sentence of banishment became a punishment more terrible than that of death, for the banished man was wiped out from his family and from the worship of the family gods. He was no longer husband or father, and his kinsfolk were free to act as though he had never lived. We have now no...
Page 8 - For the primitive Aryan, whether in the East or in the West, the world beyond the limits of his own family contained nothing, or contained his natural and necessary enemies. With all who lay beyond the bounds of his own precincts he had nothing in common.
Page 21 - ... cruelty. The development of the phratria had not, and was not intended to have, any effect on the religious character of the houses. Rather, the constitution of the phratria was not less directly religious than that of the family. Each house retained its own altar and its own worship, and each phratry or group of families had a common altar erected in honour of a common deity who was supposed to be more powerful than the deities of the households taken separately.
Page 165 - The heroic maid Kyrene, who lived in Thessaly, is loved by Apollo and carried off to Libya'; while in modern language we should say, — 'The town of Kyrene, in Thessaly, sent a colony to Libya, under the auspices of Apollo.
Page 42 - Briseis, and that henceforth he takes no part in the strife until his friend Patroklos has been slain ; that then he puts on the new armour which Thetis brings to him from the anvil of Hephaistos, and goes forth to win the victory. The details are throughout of the same nature. Achilleus sees and converses with Athene ; Aphrodite is wounded by Diomedes, and Sleep and Death bear away the lifeless Sarpedon on their noiseless wings to the far-off land of light.
Page 414 - Xerxes 8l° his son to be king over the Persians after himself, and made ready for the march. But in the year after the revolt of Egypt Dareios himself died ; nor was he suffered to punish the Athenians or the Egyptians who had rebelled against him.