Word: iliad
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...foot; his shoulders were crooked and contracted towards his chest; his head was peaked towards the top and then wool was scattered over it. . . . And on this occasion, shouting out shrillly, he uttered bitter taunts."-That is the description of Theristes, "reckless babbler" of Homer's Iliad...
With reference to the stories themselves. Professor Palmer showed how the "Iliad", with a duration of only a few days, reaches a great height of splendor, while the Odyssey has an even beauty, which is lacking in the "Iliad", as well as great artistic skill. "The ability to produce joy", he said, "seems to be at its height in these poems. It is not the source of the various incidents, but the way in which they are welded together that is the sign of the artist...
...important characters of the 'Iliad' are men, while those of the 'Odyssey' are women, but the great moral theme of the former is courage embodied in Achilles, while that of the 'Odyssey' is the ability of a strong man. 'Odysseus, to overcome obstacles. He matches himself against for universe and wins...
...illusions and delusions of myth and fable are being converted into the matter-of-fact of History. The "higher criticism" is taking the romance alike out of the Iliad and the Old Testament. Now yet another blow has been struck: "Old Noah He Did Build An Ark" thus runs the famous song: now it appears that he did nothing of the sort. Or rather, instead of being "an hundred cubits long and pitched within and without," it was solidly constructed of gigantic stone blocks; the completed edifice having four faces and four edges meeting in a point. In other words...