The Truth About Homer
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Smyr- naeus. But, allowing for poetic exaggerations, and for local varia- tions, the Homeric armour is clearly that of the Periclean hoplite ; and Prof. Jebb allows that " the general plan of the Homeric house * Jebb, Introduction to Homer, p. 73.
t " The war-chariot — imi3ortant in Homeric fights — had gone out of Greek use before 700 B. C. " \ih}d. , p. GO. ) II is essentially that of the Gi'eek house in historical times "* The truth is, features which existed in the age of a poet may be, and... undoubtedly were, so dressed up and covered with imaginary heroic life, and the figments of mythology, that their comparative modernism is easily concealed under the garb of a remote antiquity.
Prof. Jebb appeals to the Shield of Achilles, in II xviii. , as " the most elaborate work of art in Homer" (p. G7). He does not seem aware, that it appeai-s to have been wliolly unknoirn in antiquity, as far as we can judge from there being no reference to it, — not even in Plato, — -in all the literature of the best period.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Smyr- naeus. But, allowing for poetic exaggerations, and for local varia- tions, the Homeric armour is clearly that of the Periclean hoplite ; and Prof. Jebb allows that " the general plan of the Homeric house * Jebb, Introduction to Homer, p. 73.
t " The war-chariot — imi3ortant in Homeric fights — had gone out of Greek use before 700 B. C. " \ih}d. , p. GO. ) II is essentially that of the Gi'eek house in historical times "* The truth is, features which existed in the age of a poet may be, and... undoubtedly were, so dressed up and covered with imaginary heroic life, and the figments of mythology, that their comparative modernism is easily concealed under the garb of a remote antiquity.
Prof. Jebb appeals to the Shield of Achilles, in II xviii. , as " the most elaborate work of art in Homer" (p. G7). He does not seem aware, that it appeai-s to have been wliolly unknoirn in antiquity, as far as we can judge from there being no reference to it, — not even in Plato, — -in all the literature of the best period.
What to read after The Truth About Homer?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by F a Frederick Apthorp Paley to read onlineMoreLess
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