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...Bowdoin Prize Dissertation on the "Present Stage of the Homeric Question" was read in Sever 5 last evening by Mr. C. H. Page. After giving a brief sketch of the early history of the question, Mr. Page told how Grote disengaged from the Iliad an Achilleis, representing the earliest form of the poem, and consisting of Books I, VIII, and XI, XXII, of our Iliad. Subsequent scholarship has confirmed Grote's main proposition, while changing considerably the limits of his Achilleis. Within the last decade several eminent German scholars have made a very careful study of the question. Chief among...
...Odyssey was not composed until after the Iliad had attained nearly its present form. At least three-quarters of it was composed by one man. If the Odyssey alone had come down to us, there never would have been any "Homeric question...
...Hasty Pudding Club gave their annual New York performances for the benefit of the crew at the Berkeley Lyceum theatre, Monday and Tuesday evenings and Tuesday afternoon. The play is a clever burlesque on the Iliad, entitled "Helen and Paris, or, The Dude, the Dunce and the Daisy" by W. K. Post, and was cast as follows...
...Berkeley Lyceum, New York, on Monday and Tuesday evenings, April 7th and 8th. A matinee performance will also be given on the afternoon of April 8. This year's play, entitled, "Helen and Paris, or, the Dade, the Dunce and the Daisy," is a burlesque on the Iliad, and was written by W. K. Post, '90. Tickets have already been put on sale at Thurston's, and may also be obtained in New York at the Harvard Grub, at the Berkeley Lyceum, at the Woman's Exchange, and at the Fifth Avenue hotel; the boxes holding eight seats...
...chivalrous and tender compassion-Odyssey, the type of resourceful intelligence. joined to heroic endurance. How remarkable too his types of women-"Androwmache the young wife and mother who in losing Hector must lose all-Penelope loyal under hard trial to her long absent lord; the Helen of the Iliad, remorseful, clearsighted, keenly sensitive of any kindness shown her at Troy; the Helen of the Odyssey, restored to honor at her home at Sparta; the maiden Nausicaa, so beautiful in the dawning promise of a noble womanhood-perfect in her delicacy, her grace, her general courage...