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...literature and history. Professor Butcher, who was formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, is widely known in this country through his writings. These include a series of essays entitled "Some Aspects of the Greek Genius," "Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art," and the prose translation of the Odyssey which he made with Andrew lang. Recently he has been a member of the important commission engaged in preparing a plan for the development of the higher education in Ireland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classical Lectures Next Year. | 4/30/1903 | See Source »

Current Literature--"Before Homer-Sea Power and the Odyssey" by W. M. Fullerton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: April Magazine Articles. | 4/1/1903 | See Source »

Secondly, Harvard teaches her sons the worth and value of the past as an inspiration to present work. The great works of literature--the Odyssey, the Iliad, Shakspere's works and Dante's and Goethe's--are expressions of human life and feeling and are inspiring to men of every age. Present achievement is the more perfect realization of past phenomena. Understanding of the past is power, and this power Harvard gives through her training to her sons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACCALAUREATE SERMON. | 6/16/1902 | See Source »

Number 2224 is a fragment of the first or second century, in a much mutilated condition, containing parts of Homer's Odyssey, lines 366, 367, 373-380, and 389-402 of the tenth book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greek Papyri at Semitic Museum. | 4/8/1901 | See Source »

...gain the whole world and lose his own soul." In the religions of the ancient world, men had many different conceptions of what the soul is. The Egyptians believed that the soul remained with the body after death, and so invented a means of preserving the body. In the Odyssey we hear of the souls inhabiting a region of shadowy caves beneath the earth, and again of the souls of heroes, placed in the sky above with the Gods. Another conception is that the soul is a shadowy double of the man, which lingers with his remains after death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chapel Services. | 3/25/1901 | See Source »

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