Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...February 15th, by Dr. J. R. Wheeler. The lectures will be given on Monday and Friday afternoons at 4 o'clock, beginning February 15 and ending March 11. A synopsis of the lectures may be had at the University Bookstore or upon application to any of the instructors in Greek. The course, though intended particularly for classical students, will be open to the public...
...Naples; then followed in quick succession the fish market at Naples, the Carthusian monastery, Virgil's tomb, Vesuvius, showing the present Crater, several views of Pompell and many more. Next, passing over to Sicily, photographs of Mount Etna, the old quarries at Syracuse, a beautiful Greek temple at Argumentum, and the bay of Falermo were shown...
Professor Wright gave his second lecture yesterday afternoon in Sever 11. The lecture, as the previous one, was well attended, many students who are not taking the Greek courses to which these lectures are introductory being present, as well as others who have no connection with the university but are interested in the subjects treated...
...lecturer said that when Greek civilization passed away Homer lost much of that broad influence which he had exercised over the life and intellect of the civilized world. He lost his character as a philosopher and came to be regarded merely for his position in literature. Later he was not even accorded the supremacy in literature. In the Augustan age and the later centuries he was not appreciated, and Virgil was held in higher estimation. With the revival of letters, at the period of the Renaissance, the Greek language began to regain much of its lost power and Homer...
From the poems of Homer we get a very clear notion of Homeric civilization. It differed from that of the later Greek life; it was an age of transformation, where the noblest tendencies were strangely crossed by the coarsest ones. He has depicted this life so clearly by telling his story in the words and actions of his characters, keeping himself in the back ground. The language and the thought harmonize beautifully, the language showing an astonishing adaptability of the varying phases of the thought...