The Pageant of GreeceRichard Winn Livingstone Clarendon Press, 1924 - 436 страници Traces the growth of Greek literature and indicates the historical background in which it is set. |
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Achaians Achilles Aegisthus Aeschylus Agamemnon Aristophanes Aristotle army Athenian Athens battle beauty body brave called character chorus Clytaemnestra courage Crito Croesus dead death Demosthenes Dionysus divine drama earth enemy Euripides evil eyes father fear feel fell friends give gods greatest Greece Greek literature hands happiness hear heart heaven Hector Herodotus Homer honour human idea king land live lyric means mind modern moral nature never Nicias night Odysseus Oedipus Orestes pass passage passion Persians philosophy Plato play poem poet poetry political Priam Protagoras reason rest round scene ships shows Socrates song Sophocles soul spake Sparta speak spear speech spirit story Strep Syracusans tell thee things thou thought Thucydides took tragedy Trojans true truth virtue wisdom women words writing Xenophon Xerxes young Zeus
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Страница 5 - Weep with me, all you that read This little story; And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As heaven and nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
Страница 282 - ... and the man who gave him the poison now and then looked at his feet and legs ; and after a while he pressed his foot hard and asked him if he could feel; and he said, no; and then his leg, and so upwards and upwards, and showed us that he was cold and stiff. And he felt them himself, and said: When the poison reaches the heart, that will be the end.
Страница 282 - Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? The debt shall be paid, said Crito; is there anything else?
Страница 389 - HERACLITUS THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake ; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.
Страница 354 - From what we have said it will be seen that the poet's function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen, ie what is possible as being probable or necessary.
Страница 334 - Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. And he who by nature and not by mere accident is without a state, is either a bad man or above humanity; he is like the Tribeless, lawless, hearthless one...
Страница 106 - Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections : to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the same also. The modernness or antiquity of an action, therefore, has nothing to do with its fitness for poetical representation; this depends upon its inherent qualities.
Страница 423 - I will keep this oath and this stipulation— to reckon him who taught me this art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him and relieve his necessities if required, to look upon his offspring in the same footing as my own brothers and to teach them this art if they shall wish to learn it without fee or stipulation...
Страница 269 - Why do I mention this? Because I am going to explain to you why I have such an evil name. When I heard the answer, I said to myself, What can the god mean? and what is the interpretation of his riddle? for I know that I have no wisdom, small or great. What then can he mean when he says that I am the wisest of men?
Страница 334 - ... which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, for the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.