Translations of Homer: The OdysseyMethuen, 1967 - Epic poetry, Greek |
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Page 154
... stories in Homer than Virgil ? as that of the Cyclops , the ships of Alcinous , & c . Virgil has imi- tated most of these bold fables , and the story of the ships of Alcinous is not more incredible than the transformation of the ships ...
... stories in Homer than Virgil ? as that of the Cyclops , the ships of Alcinous , & c . Virgil has imi- tated most of these bold fables , and the story of the ships of Alcinous is not more incredible than the transformation of the ships ...
Page 252
... story but in part ; the Queen ask'd him who he was , but he passes over this without any reply , and reserves the greatest part of his story to a time of more leisure , that he may discover himself to a better advantage before the whole ...
... story but in part ; the Queen ask'd him who he was , but he passes over this without any reply , and reserves the greatest part of his story to a time of more leisure , that he may discover himself to a better advantage before the whole ...
Page 395
... story tell , The woes , the horrors , and the laws of Hell . 270 Thus while she spoke , in swarms hell's Empress brings Daughters and wives of Heroes and of Kings ; Thick , and more thick they gather round the blood , 275 Ghost throng'd ...
... story tell , The woes , the horrors , and the laws of Hell . 270 Thus while she spoke , in swarms hell's Empress brings Daughters and wives of Heroes and of Kings ; Thick , and more thick they gather round the blood , 275 Ghost throng'd ...
Contents
Telemachus and Penelope Ulysses among | 36 |
Juno deceives Jupiter by the Girdle of Venus | 156 |
The Fight of Ulysses and Irus | 166 |
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Achilles action Ægyptus Æneas Agamemnon Alcinous Ancients appears arms ask'd Atrides beauty call'd Calypso character Circe coast companions crown'd Cyclops Dacier Dæmon death Deity Demodocus descends describ'd dire divine dreadful Epic Epic Poetry Eurylochus Eurymachus Eustathius observes Ev'n ev'ry eyes fable fame fate father feast gives Goddess Gods Grecian Greeks heav'n Heroe Homer honour Iliad Island Ithaca Jove Jupiter King Laestrygones Laodamas Leucothea Menelaus Minerva moral nature Nausicaa Neptune Nestor night nymph o'er Odyssey Palace Pallas passage passion Penelope person Phæacians Plutarch Poem Poet Poetry Pope's pow'r Prince Pylos Queen relation rock royal sacred sails says Eustathius Scaliger Scylla shade shews ship shore sire skies soul speaks Spondanus storms story Strabo stranger Suitors swift tears Telemachus thee thou thro toils Troy Ulysses verse vessel Virgil voyage waves whole winds wine wisdom wise woes words youth καὶ