Homer and His Age

Author:   Andrew Lang ,  Andrew Lang ,  1stworld Library
Publisher:   1st World Library - Literary Society
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9781421896908


Pages:   316
Publication Date:   01 December 2007
Format:   Paperback
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"The aim of this book is to prove that the Homeric Epics, as wholes, and apart from passages gravely suspected in antiquity, present a perfectly harmonious picture of the entire life and civilisation of one single age. The faint variations in the design are not greater than such as mark every moment of culture, for in all there is some movement; in all, cases are modified by circumstances. If our contention be true, it will follow that the poems themselves, as wholes, are the product of a single age, not a mosaic of the work of several changeful centuries. This must be the case-if the life drawn is harmonious, the picture must be the work of a single epoch-for it is not in the nature of early uncritical times that later poets should adhere, or even try to adhere, to the minute details of law, custom, opinion, dress, weapons, houses, and so on, as presented in earlier lays or sagas on the same set of subjects. Even less are poets in uncritical times inclined to ""archaise,"" either by attempting to draw fancy pictures of the manners of the past, or by making researches in graves, or among old votive offerings in temples, for the purpose of ""preserving local colour."" The idea of such archaising is peculiar to modern times."

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Author:   Andrew Lang ,  Andrew Lang ,  1stworld Library
Publisher:   1st World Library - Literary Society
Imprint:   1st World Library - Literary Society
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.404kg
ISBN:  

9781421896908


ISBN 10:   1421896907
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   01 December 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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