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...many great demagogues. After the Dorian invasion Tiryns and Mycenal were both subjects of Argos. Dr. Schlieman found ruins of large palaces, at Tiryns and Mycenae, which so resemble the ruins of the palace ruins found at Troy that the two towns are now known to be of Trojan origin. The lecture was ended with a series of stereopticon views, showing the walls, tombs, relics, etc., which had been described by Professor Goodwin...
Chorus of Greek men, boarding school girls, and Trojan women...
Some scholars have refused to believe that Homer wished to describe the Trojan war and even Mr. Glad stone in our day is said to believe that the poems are full of Egyptian mythology. We have today a more correct text than ever before. Homer has a wonderful ability to enter into the spirit of his poems and make his characters perfect representatives of the qualities they typify. Achilles, the type of heroic might, violent in anger and sorrow, capable also of chivalrous and tender compassion-Odyssey, the type of resourceful intelligence. joined to heroic endurance. How remarkable...
...poems. We know this poem through quotations which we find in various authors, and by its influence on Greek art and literature. In this epic we find the determination of Zeus to relieve the earth of its surplus population by a destructive war given as the cause of the Trojan war. In furtherance of this plan, Thetis was given in marriage to Peelers, that their son Achilles might be the bulwark of the Greeks. This marriage was one of the episodes which particularly attracted the vase-painters, and was subjected to endless variations in artistic handling. The Judgment of Paris...
...Trojan's library was by far the most complete. There is evidence that books might be taken out of the public libraries. Many of these were sooner or later destroyed by fire. Christian lioraries devoted to scriptural writings were very common in the first centuries after Christ...