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...Bowdoin Prize Dissertation on the "Present Stage of the Homeric Question" was read in Sever 5 last evening by Mr. C. H. Page. After giving a brief sketch of the early history of the question, Mr. Page told how Grote disengaged from the Iliad an Achilleis, representing the earliest form of the poem, and consisting of Books I, VIII, and XI, XXII, of our Iliad. Subsequent scholarship has confirmed Grote's main proposition, while changing considerably the limits of his Achilleis. Within the last decade several eminent German scholars have made a very careful study of the question. Chief among...
...very first chapters one point is settled which is of especial interest to us at Harvard. About six months ago Professor Wright completed an article for the Harvard Studies in which merely on literary grounds he fixed a date for the Cylonian conspiracy much earlier than that accepted by Grote. In these first chapters there is a striking confirmation of this on historical evidence, and the date fixed, as Professor Wright argued that it should be, before the legislation of Draco. Contrary to the general idea we learn that Draco established the Athenian senate and that the Areopagus...
...Grote's History of Greece...
...Emerson who prided himself on having no scheme of his own. Not-withstanding this fact, Socrates was a prolific parent of philosophical schools and his influence was felt for generations after his death. The one principle of Socrates which we know is "All knowledge is virtue." Mr. Grote has done valuable service in refuting the common opinion held as regards the sophists. He shows that they had no share in corrupting Athenian youth. A strong argument in favor of this view is that Plato in his dialogues, Protagoras and Gorgias, treating on the two greatest sophists, makes no accusations whatsoever...
Professor White lectures today to the section in Greek 7 on tle "Early Constitutions of Athens." He advises the members of the section to read the eleventh chapter of Grote and the chapter in Curtius on the history of Attica...