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...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "Homeric Characters in Sophocles." Mr. S. B. Luce.--"The Character of Odysseus in Sophocles." Mr. G. H. Gifford.--"The Development of the Character of the Protagonist in Sophocles." Mr. J. B. Munn. Harvard...
...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "Homeric Characters in Sophocles." Mr. S. B. Luce.--"The Character of Odysseus in Sophocles." Mr. G. H. Gifford.--"The Development of the Character of the Protagonist in Sophocles." Mr. J. B. Munn. Harvard...
...Follett's "Star-Wondering" in which he sets the stars to pondering the old question which the first thinking man proposed to himself, the question which played so large a part in the schemes of the early Greek physical philosophers--"What is this world about us?" Like Odysseus, Mr. Blythe communes with his soul and dreams brave dreams. Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez writes in honor of the memory of Walter Pater in words which suggest Pater's style, though the title to the verse is not quite happy. Mr. Ward Shepard writes seriously on "The Spirit of Traherne." Traherne is unknown...
...patron-god four plays; the last of these was the satyr play, which was really neither tragedy nor comedy, but a tragedy of the old type with all the rudeness and boisterousness of earlier times. Such a play is the Cyclops, the subject being the blinding of Polyphemus by Odysseus...
...Iliad and the Odyssey. On every occasion possible- at games, at feasts, at public and private assemblies- the bard or rhapsode was given the place of honor, and it was his part to recite again and again to the eager listeners the story of Achilles, Ajax, or Odysseus. In this way the people in every part of Greece became familiar with the great poems which were finally transcribed and carefully handed down from generation to generation. In the schools children had to learn the poems by heart, not for the intellectual good which would result from this practice...