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I kpreparing this second edition I should like to thank several friends for notes and suggestions, among them Mr. E. E. Qenner, Professor Cruickshank, Mr. J. A. K. Thomson, and Mr. Andrew Lang. I have also derived profit from some of my reviews, bothE nglish and foreign. It was vain, I suppose, to hope that even the most pacific and wary walking would take one far into Homeric territory without rousing the old lions that lie wakeful behind most of the larger stones. I have listened with mixed feelings to their threatening voices. The sportsman within me would like to go gun in hand and bag a few of the most dangerous ;the philosopher is resolved to do them no injury, but merely try, gradually and indirectly, to make them friends to man. While still avoiding controversy, therefore, I have tried in this edition to state more clearly or correctly or patiently a number of arguments which seem to have given trouble in the first; I have in many places added or altered a word or two in view of fresh evidence ;especially I have added a new chapter on the known history of the Homeric text. The rest of my book proceeds mainly in historical order, and deals largely with regions in which there

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Author

Gilbert Murray

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1960

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198810025

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction