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... Achilles the hero - Helen of Troy - The rank and file - The Iliad -The wrath of Achilles - The forge of Vulcan - The wander- ings of Ulysses - The writing of the Odyssey - Ulysses ' adven- tures - English translations - Pope's ...
... Achilles the hero - Helen of Troy - The rank and file - The Iliad -The wrath of Achilles - The forge of Vulcan - The wander- ings of Ulysses - The writing of the Odyssey - Ulysses ' adven- tures - English translations - Pope's ...
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... Achilles for his valour , Helen for her beauty , Ulysses for his resourcefulness , Penelope for her faithfulness . Any orator , even if his pedestal be only a soap - box at a street - corner , can use one of these names to point a moral ...
... Achilles for his valour , Helen for her beauty , Ulysses for his resourcefulness , Penelope for her faithfulness . Any orator , even if his pedestal be only a soap - box at a street - corner , can use one of these names to point a moral ...
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... Achilles the Hero There are no better stories to be found in books ; no person- ages better worth knowing . In Achilles we have a hero indeed ; lacking the Christian gentleness that is an aureole about Lance- lot's bowed head , it is ...
... Achilles the Hero There are no better stories to be found in books ; no person- ages better worth knowing . In Achilles we have a hero indeed ; lacking the Christian gentleness that is an aureole about Lance- lot's bowed head , it is ...
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... mankind . Just as they have had their love - affairs with mortals , gods and goddesses alike , to engender a Helen or an Achilles , so they descend into the press of human battle , to help this or that combatant in a Homer 39.
... mankind . Just as they have had their love - affairs with mortals , gods and goddesses alike , to engender a Helen or an Achilles , so they descend into the press of human battle , to help this or that combatant in a Homer 39.
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... Achilles , gigantic Ajax , Diomed , Nes- tor , the oldest of the chiefs , and Agamemnon , the brother of Menelaus ... Achilles and Agamemnon - and here the story of the Iliad begins . The Wrath of Achilles It is the anger , not Homer 41.
... Achilles , gigantic Ajax , Diomed , Nes- tor , the oldest of the chiefs , and Agamemnon , the brother of Menelaus ... Achilles and Agamemnon - and here the story of the Iliad begins . The Wrath of Achilles It is the anger , not Homer 41.
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