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... Iliad IS FORCE . TH Force employed by man , force that enslaves man , force before which man's flesh shrinks away ... Iliad could appear as an historical document ; for others , whose powers of recognition are more acute and who perceive ...
... Iliad IS FORCE . TH Force employed by man , force that enslaves man , force before which man's flesh shrinks away ... Iliad could appear as an historical document ; for others , whose powers of recognition are more acute and who perceive ...
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... Iliad commits no cruel or brutal act . But then how many men do we know , in several thousand years of human history , who would have displayed such god - like generosity ? Two or three ? —even this is doubtful . Lacking this generosity ...
... Iliad commits no cruel or brutal act . But then how many men do we know , in several thousand years of human history , who would have displayed such god - like generosity ? Two or three ? —even this is doubtful . Lacking this generosity ...
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... Iliad is the first : here the Greek spirit reveals itself not only in the injunction given mankind to seek above all other goods , " the kingdom and justice of our Heavenly Father , " but also in the fact that human suffer- ing is laid ...
... Iliad is the first : here the Greek spirit reveals itself not only in the injunction given mankind to seek above all other goods , " the kingdom and justice of our Heavenly Father , " but also in the fact that human suffer- ing is laid ...
Contents
HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
Sophocles | 78 |
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