Word: iliad
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...ILIAD...
...Nibelungenleid, it has been said, is the Iliad of the Germanic races, and this comparison, though only a general one, never the less comes close to the truth. Granted that it is crude in some parts and lacks the balance and proportion of the Homeric epic, yet, says Professor J. G. Robertson, "neither in the Iliad nor the Odyssey--nowhere, indeed, in the epic poetry of any people--has the tragic movement of events been depicted upon such a sublime scale as in the second part of the Nibelimgen...
Molpe Antedates Iliad...
...take it as an established fact that the Homeric epics were the earliest crystallization of folk-song in the ancient world that might properly be termed poetry, and that all poetic song has descended from them and from them alcne. As a matter of fact, the molpe, antedating the Iliad and Odyssey by many years, is the true spring of song for which the historians are looking...
...faintly, in what one reads and hears, interest increases to a surprising extent. While it is of course impossible to expect a sudden passion for the study of Greek similar to that which seized Italy during the Renaissance, it is not unreasonable to predict that the perusal of the Iliad and the Odyssey may be taken up in future with a slightly greater degree of enthusiastic abandon than has prevailed heretofore...