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...Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not a direct translation and deemed modern in its time, Lamb states in the preface that, I have gained a r...
...The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the 8th or 7th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the Greek lan...
...oem continued by me being, like the full stops at the end of the Iliad and Odyssey, a full stop of a very qualified import. Hoping that the immortalit...
... so greatly, that the play languished even at the royal table, and the young king, with a pensive look and downcast eye, followed, without appearing t... ... merit. These words made allusion to all the memories which Anne of Austria trembled to evoke. England, that was her hatred of Richelieu and her love ...
...Dante probably alludes to the story of Philomela, as it is found in Homer’s Odyssey, b. xix. 518 rather than as later poets have told it. “She intend...
...dertook (saith MIST’S JOURNAL, JUNE 8, 1728,) the sequel of that work, the Odyssey; and having secured the success by a numerous subscription, he empl... ...we can in truth oppose nothing but the words of MR POPE’S PROPOSAL FOR THE ODYSSEY, (PRINTED BY J. WATTS, JAN. 10, 1724.) ‘I take this occasion to dec... ...e, in his Poetic, chap, iv., does further set forth, that as the Iliad and Odyssey gave example to tragedy, so did this poem to comedy its first idea.... ...rst epic poem, written by Homer himself, and anterior even to the Iliad or Odyssey. Now, forasmuch as our poet had translated those two fa- mous works... ...162 Universal Passion, Satire i. 163 In his Poems, and at the end of the Odyssey. 270 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 164 The names ... ... the Iliad. 191 The London and Mist’s Journals, on his undertaking of the Odyssey. 192 Vide Bossu, Du Poeme Epique, ch. viii. 193 Bossu, chap. vii.... ...glish translation of Homer’s Iliad) had not that merit with respect to the Odyssey, or he might have been better in- structed in the Greek Punology.—P...
...storical explanations in Mingault’s notes. In Greek I read the Iliad and Odyssey through; one or two plays of Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes...