Word: homer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Wright will lecture on Homer and Greek C today in Sever 30. On Friday he will lecture to Greek B and D at 12 o'clock in Harvard...
...Hexameter verse the best medium for a translation of Homer into English? (Matthew Arnold, on translation of Homer...
...very successful year may be expected. Successful candidates will be announced later. The following is a list of men who tried: F. Farwell, W. H. Reed, F. S. Strauahan. C. Vrooman, J. M. Washburn, M. A. Bartlett, L. A. Burleigh, Herman Oppenheim, D. C. Green, T. F. Allen, Homer Boyen, J. W. Davenport, R. Bacon, E. W. Ryerson, R. Whitman, E. H. Anger, A. H. Jordan. R. E. Phillips, E. R. Crane, S. L. Wolff, C. H. Holmes, F. H. Gade, W. E. Greenough, Talbot, C. A. Gray, H. K. White, Ed. Klein, W. J. Pelo, A. S. Williams...
...taught by his parables. Parable really means a comparison or likeness, and as in all speech we are simply executing comparison the word came to mean in the olden times to talk or to speak. Parable afterwards came to mean condensed speech, and in this way the smiles of Homer and others and the fables of Aesop are kindred to the parables of Jesus. Two fables occur in the Old Testament. Jesus must have been familiar with the use of fables, but he never used them, because they were inadequate for his purpose. Fables make our thoughts entertaining, but unlike...
...after life, are very different from those in later times. The existance of the dead was a neutral state, neither very blessed nor unhappy; nor do they seem to meet any punishment for "deeds done in the body." Oracles were scarce, only two being mentioned in all of Homer...