Word: greek
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...LECTURES ON GREEK POETRY. V. "The Iliad as a great poem." Professor Gilbert Murray, of Glasgow. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...Gilbert Murray, formerly professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow, delivered the third of series of lectures on "Greek Traditional Poetry" last night. His subject was that previously announced for the second lecture, "Chaos and the element of Regeneration, Aides and Nemesis...
...Aidos" and "Nemesis" are terms which occur frequently in Greek literature. The former is used in regard to one's own feelings about one's act. "Nemesis" means righteous indignation, and is used in regard to the act of another...
Among the poems, the most ambitious is J. H. wheelock's "Paris and Oenone," a remarkably successful attempt to treat a Greek theme in a Greek manner, even to the Introduction of a chorus. The verse is somewhat uneven, but the poem as a whole is well sustained and the handling of the chorus and the difficult stichomythia is unusually good. As a minor point it may be noted that the characterization of Paris as the "husband of Helen of Troy, mortally wounded by the arrow of Philoctetes" and of Oenone as "a demi-goddess--who can heal mortal wounds...
...LECTURES ON GREEK POETRY. IV. "The Homeric Spirit and its growth in the Traditional Book." Professor Gilbert Murray, of Glasgow. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...