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...role of the divine in Homer, Moore stated, "is to bring to a man magical adventures or magical harm which belong to him." For example, Apollo breathes courage into the warrior and guides his spear to the mark...
...first auditors of epic poetry, in the time when it was still in a phase of growth, believed quite simply in the reality of the gods, Moore noted. "If you had suggested to one of Homer's heroes that Zeus was a figment of the human imagination, he would have concluded at once that Zeus had reft you of your wits...
...from a variety of homes: a 33-acre farm in New Jersey, a 117-acre estate in Hollywood, a town house near London's Hyde Park, a villa at Cap d'Antibes, a hacienda in Palm Beach, a 13-room duplex in Manhattan hung with Rubens, Winslow Homer and Mary Cassatt...
...Greek islands several times, cruises are offering a new variety of on-ship activities. American Export Lines, for example, is running a Caribbean "Culture Cruise" that leaves New York this week. The culture seekers will be able to gaze at a gallery of paintings by artists from Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington to Ben Shahn and Milton Avery, will be lectured by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Critic John Mason Brown, Poet John Ciardi and Manhattan's Whitney Museum Director Floyd Goodrich as the ship steams through the warm Caribbean islands. The line will also run a "Bridge Cruise," captained...
...write about both. After all, Tolstoy wrote War and Peace a half-century after Borodino. Hughes himself sets his sights even higher; it occurred to him in the middle of World War II, he explains, that "if I turned my back on it, it was rather as if Homer had turned his back on the siege of Troy...