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...Gilbert Murray delivered the fifth of his series of lectures on Greek Traditional Poetry last evening in the Lecture room of the Fogg Museum. The special subject of the lecture was "The Iliad as a Great Poem...
Criticism, said Mr. Murray, has to a great extent shattered the former conception that the Iliad was written by one man--Homer. Even if the poet had a name, we know nothing of him. It seems more probable that he was an imaginary ancestor, invented to receive the worship of his admirers. It is at any rate assured that the incomparable poet did not write the whole Iliad, but that it was a work of successive ages, and probably, at the end of a long period of gradual development, fell into the hands of some great poet. Although criticism...
Professor Gilbert Murray, M.A., LL.D., formerly of Glasgow, will deliver the fifth of his series of lectures on "Greek Traditional Poetry," in the Fogg Lecture Room at 8 o'clock this evening, on the subject "The Iliad as a Great Poem." There will be one more lecture in the series, which will be delivered Friday evening on "Ionia and Attica." The lectures will be open to the public...
...interesting to trace the various evidences of expurgation as we have them in the "Iliad," to show the spirit of the Homeric Age. All indications prove that the "Iliad" was considerably expurgated, whereas the "Odyssey" underwent a less stringent process of revision. Although all the early myths point to many barbarous practices among the ancient Greeks, we see slight traces of them in the "Iliad." The poem is practically free from pictures of human sacrifice or torture, whereas in the "Odyssey" we have one situation very nearly approaching torture...
...spirit of the "Iliad" is not savage, but essentially chivalrous. The spirit in which it is written is too human to permit torture and practically the only instance we have of human sacrifice is when Achilles slays the twelve Trojan youths over the body of Hector. This, however, is passed over hurriedly, and Achilles still remains a noble hero, and the "Iliad" the book of heroes...