Word: odyssey
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...meeting of the Classical Club last night Professor Palmer read a paper on "Monotheism in the Odyssey...
...these colleges taught something of church history in connection with the study of evidences of Christianity. The speaker contrasted the English requirements with ours, showing the demands of the Oxford and Cambridge examinations. He presented the German Gymnasium as the best model. Before the student reaches Cicero and the Odyssey he has completed Bible history. In the next year he studies the ancient Church, in his last years the modern. He gives two hours weekly to the study. A recent visitor in Germany reports it among the most popular studies...
...inconsistent with the nature of the English language. When we translate Homer we unconsciously seek simple Anglo Saxon words and these are rarely dactylic. The author argues the superiority of rythmic prose and gives an example by a translation of his own from the twenty-third book of the Odyssey...
Butcher and Lang's Translation of the Odyssey of Homor...
Butcher and Lang's Translation of the Odyssey of Homer...