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Achaians Achilles Agamemnon Alkinoös ancient Andromache Aphrodite appears arms Astyanax Athene banquet bath beautiful bride Briseis brought called chiton chlaina Cloth considered couch court custom dance daughter death deemed doma Eumaeos Eurykleia Eurymachus existed fact father Friedreich friends garments gave goddess gods gold golden Greece Greeks guests Hades hair hand heart Hektor Helen Hellas Hera hero Hesiod Homeric epoch Homeric house Homeric period honored husband Iliad inasmuch Kalypso King Kirke Kleon Laertes Laodamas magnificent maid-servants maidens maids marriage Menelaos mentioned mother Nausikaä Nestor noble noticed nurse Odysseus opinion palace parents PARKE GODWIN passage Patroklos Peleus Penelope peplos peplum placed poems poet Priam probably Rangabé says seat servants silver slaves sons sorrow spake spear suitors tears Telemachos thalamos thee thou throne tion to-day took Trojan Troy Ulysses usually wall wife wine women wonderful words wound young Zeus
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Page 301 - A General History of Greece from the Earliest Period to the Death of Alexander the Great, with a sketch of the subsequent History to the present time. New Edition. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price js. 6d. Tales of Ancient Greece.
Page 112 - Small blame is theirs, if both the Trojan knights And brazen-mailed Achaians have endured So long so many evils for the sake Of that one woman.
Page 302 - These volumes embody the results of many years of arduous and conscientious study. The work is fully entitled to be called the ablest and most satisfactory book on the subject written in our language. The author's methods are dignified and judicious, and he has availed himself of all the recent light thrown by philological research on the annals of the East."— Jr.