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...Indic, Renaissance was a second Renaissance fueling 19th century Romanticism that "marked the close of the classical age, just as the classical Renaissance had marked the close of the medieval age." He compares the significance of the arrival of Hindu manuscripts in 19th century Europe to that of the Hiad and the Odvssev following the fall of Constantinople four centuries earlier. The term "Renaissance," according to Schwab, implies "a rediscovery of knowledge married to new creation." The crucial difference he perceives between the two shifts in thought, however, is that while the first affirmed a self-centrality, the second unsettled...
...Hiad and The Odyssey, by Homer...
...MUST begin with Homer, for both Antony and Cleopatra will be more intelligible in comparison with the characters of the Hiad, especially Achilles. The Hiad's hero strives to live life intensely in a brilliant world without falsifying his self-esteem. He is finely aware of what is owed to the self as warrior, yet he attempts to dissolve this self in allegiance to something greater. He scorns the esteem of men, for the honor which only the gods can confide. He will have honor from Zeus. His vision is the expression of his inner gloriousness. The Hiad presents...
...community accompanies the reconciliation of male will with female fruition. Aeschylus introduces the distrust of violence. Eventually, the gods will dissolve sufficiently so that the power of action gives way to that of moral perception. Battlefield gives place to City. The great transformation of the heroic from the Hiad to the Orestcia to the Elizabethan Renaissance, was from Fate to Law to Reason...
...from "The Selective Principle in Education," by James B. Conant; Norman E. Hunt '38, of Brookline, Mass., "The Bombardment," by Amy Lowell; Wiley E. Mayne '38, of Sanborn, Ia., "Daniel O'Connell," by Wendell Phillips; Laird Mck. Ogle, '37, of Norwalk, Conn., "Hector's Farewell to Andromache," from The Hiad, Book VI, Homer; Ellwood M. Rabenold Jr. '37, of New York, N. Y., "The Judiciary Act of 1802," by Hon. James A. Bayard; Fred Rogosin '39, of Dorchester, Mass., "Steel," by Joseph Auslander; and Willard M. Whitman Jr. '39, of Marquette, Mich., "The Creation," by James W. Johnson...