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... human situation and the other the origin or continuation of a divine society . " 31 Frye offers two examples of contrast - epic : " The collections of myth made by Hesiod and Ovid are based on the same form : here the poet himself , a ...
... human situation and the other the origin or continuation of a divine society . " 31 Frye offers two examples of contrast - epic : " The collections of myth made by Hesiod and Ovid are based on the same form : here the poet himself , a ...
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... human form . But this new stock , too , was contemptuous of the gods , rapacious for slaughter , and violent . You might know that they were sons of blood . There is no alternate vision or witness of the event to contradict the narrator ...
... human form . But this new stock , too , was contemptuous of the gods , rapacious for slaughter , and violent . You might know that they were sons of blood . There is no alternate vision or witness of the event to contradict the narrator ...
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... human possibilities , a sense of the ultimate nature of the cosmos , and a justification of the cosmic order as propitious to human life . " 55 By imitating and transforming previous epics in their 55Stuart Curran , “ The Mental ...
... human possibilities , a sense of the ultimate nature of the cosmos , and a justification of the cosmic order as propitious to human life . " 55 By imitating and transforming previous epics in their 55Stuart Curran , “ The Mental ...
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