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Life in the Homeric Age. By Thomas Day Seymour. (Macmillan and Co. 17s.)—This careful study of the Homeric poems by a Professor at Yale is a very suggestive reminder that even in lands where there is no "compulsory Greek" the classics still hold. their own. Professor Seymour knows his Homer as the Scripture- reader knows his Bible. His "point of view has been philological, not archaeological. From the poet's language he has attempted to discover what was before the poet's mind." Dress and decora- tion, house and furniture, trade and the crafts, sea, life, agri- culture, Homeric food, Homeric property and armour, are all deduced from the vocabulary of the Iliad and the Odyssey. An• the modest words of the introduction, a handbook which endeavours to cover the whole field of Homeric antiquities must be content with registering the most important facts in regard, lo the life which the poet depicts, and seeking to make clear tbe relation between these facts. It cannot enter into the question of origins and pursue enquiries as to the 43044),y:410a between these facts and an earlier period of civilization." The handbook, it should be premised, extends to nearly seven hundred pages, and o

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Author

Th.D.Seymour

Publisher

Macimilian Company

Published

1908

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction