New Chapters in the History of Greek Literature: Recent Discoveries in Greek Poetry and Prose of the Fourth and Following Centuries B.C., Volumen2John Undershell Powell, Eric Arthur Barber Clarendon Press, 1921 - 166 páginas |
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Página 43 - Latini, et quo quemque modo fugiatque feratque laborem. sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera fertur cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris, altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes.
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Página 8 - The two, going forth, come upon Dolon, the Trojan, who has left his tent to reconnoiter the position of the Greeks. They kill him, and then continue on their way till they reach the encampment of the Thracians, whom they find sunk in slumber. In the midst of these was Rhesus; beside him were his swift horses tethered with thongs to his chariot. Diomedes rushed upon them, and, after slaying twelve of the king's companions, put Rhesus himself to death: 'And when the son of Tydeus came to the king,...
Página 90 - ГаГа, sent up to mortals prophetic dreams to rival the oracle of Apollo. Apollo appealed to Zeus and the latter deprived Gaia of this competing power (1262-1283). The import of this passage as symbolic of the triumph of a later over an earlier religion has been everywhere recognized (cf. Rohde, 2, 58: "Einst hatte zu Pytho, über dem Felsspalt, aus dem der erregende Erddunst aufstieg, ein Orakel der Gaia bestanden, in dem vermutlich die Rathsuchenden durch nächtliche Wahrträume belehrt wurden...
Página 37 - No competent critic in these days, certainly no classical scholar worthy of the name, needs to be reminded that in a literary masterpiece simplicity is always deliberate and naïveté always artistic".
Página 50 - The external origin and the objectivity of the major dreams in both poems I have frequently commented upon.214 The first allegorical dream appears in the Odyssey, the evident product of a later technique. Yet even in this case the poet's lack of familiarity in the handling of the allegorical...
Página 63 - The indefiniteness of dream messages and the uncertainties of dream interpretation contrasted with the comparatively greater clarity and definiteness of the oracle prevent the former from attaining an equal significance with the latter in relation to the plot. But one of its most frequently recurring functions is, as in Atossa's dream in the Persae™ or in lo's dream here, to prepare the way for an omen or an oracle upon which the action may be safely based. This combination of dream and omen or...
Página 57 - The effect upon the audience of this dream, appearing, as it did, in a play which portrayed that great conflict, must have been stupendous. The situation leading up to the episode of the dream and the story of the vision are as follows: Atossa (176 ff.) has been haunted by troublesome dreams ever since her son's departure for Greece. But in the night before the opening of the play a dream comes to her which excelled all the others in vividness. She tells it to the chorus. 'There seemed to appear...
Página 83 - Nothing could be further from the truth. To be sure there is not 'complete coextension' between what the ghost says to the audience338 and what Hecuba sees in the dream.