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Word: cattishness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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...thin and accidental." Though some modern scholars agree with him that The Odyssey is a much later work than The Iliad, most will think Shaw goes too far in saying "this Homer lived too long after the heroic age to feel assured and large." Penelope is "the sly cattish wife," Odysseus "that cold-blooded egotist," Telemachus "the priggish son who yet met his master-prig in Menelaus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scholar-Warrior | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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