Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...religion is not so clearly defined. In the religion of Homer, all men want gods; the gods are near the men and are easily placable; and men communed with the gods directly in their prayers and sacrifices. There is a change in the conception of the gods in the Odyssey; the conception here is a more elevated...
...races which lived and flourished centuries ago. In all these traditional and historical remembrances, Homer is seen as a central figure. In the Greek world long ago he was the same glorious power that he is to us today. Seven hundred years before Christ, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey marked the beginning of the literature of all Europe, and through all the ages since they have been the same living poems that they are to us now. It is almost impossible for us to conceive the influence which the poems of Homer has upon the minds and hearts...
...LOST.- Odyssey XIII and XXIV and Chardenal's First French Course. Please leave address at Memorial Bulletin...
Professor Palmer concluded his readings from the Odyssey yesterday afternoon, reading the eighteenth book...
Professor Palmer will conclude his readings from the Odyssey with Book XVIII, which he will read on Wednesday, April...