Word: homer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...readings which have been given for several years in Sever 11 by Prof. Palmer on the Odyssey of Homer, form the basis of an excellent translation of the work in poetical prose. Prof. Palmer has hit upon a method of translation especially adapted to the requirements of Homer, combining in a very happy manner, narrative and poetry. The off-hand way in which he conducted his winter readings has been preserved as far as possible, although something has been lost by the printing, for as Prof. Palmer admits "methods originally fitted to the ear will not be equally well-suited...
...modern languages of German, French, Italian and Spanish; why not in Greek and Latin? The days of reasoning a language into hard, narrow rules and set ways of translating are over, and it will soon be possible for the average man of the world to take up his Homer or Cicero and read them with as much zest and as little trouble as he does the latest French novel or the most recent German pamphlet on philosophy...
...examination in Greek 3 will consist of a short passage from the year's work, books xiii-xx, Odyssey, and eight passages from Homer...
...transcendental philosophy, the romantic fiction, the agnostic atheism, the pessimistic dilettanteism, to which modern speculation, and modern science and modern poetry tend, need now and then a "season of calm weather," such as a dialogue of Plato, an oration of Demosthenes, a tragedy of Sophocles, or a book of Homer, or at least a letter of Cicero, an ode of Horace, or a book of Virgil to quiet the fevered spirit...