Landmarks of Homeric Study Together With An Essay On the Points of Contact Betw
Landmarks of Homeric Study Together With An Essay On the Points of Contact Betw
W E William Ewart Gladstone
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Of these it may be said that sun, moon, and stars, visible and in definite form, did not need the intervention of statuary to inter- pret them ; and that such substitution could not, as a rule, have prevailed in the Achaian age as an indigenous practice, by reason of the backwardness of art. And it may be doubted whether, if they had been represented in visible images, it would have been possible for him to throw these Nature-Powers so completely into the background of his Poems ; especially th...e moon, who had so high a place in Assyria, who was worshipped in later times as one of the forms of Diana, and who in Homer is not only not a deity but not even a person. It is probable that the Poet found it the more necessary to disarm as it were certain deities, in cases where they had a high place in foreign or in ancient associations, as these were the most likely to interfere with his great theanthropic design, which united heaven and earth. It is the more remark- able In the case of Selene from the fact that she yS LANDMARKS OF HOMERIC STUDY sec.
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