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Page 124
... fact shifts into legend , and legend into myth . The facts work loose ; they are detached from their roots in time and space and shaped into a story . The story is moulded and re- moulded by imagination , by passion and prejudice , by ...
... fact shifts into legend , and legend into myth . The facts work loose ; they are detached from their roots in time and space and shaped into a story . The story is moulded and re- moulded by imagination , by passion and prejudice , by ...
Page 128
... fact must have been that Pausanias some- how misconducted himself , was recalled , and put to death in circumstances which were capable of being used by superstition and policy against the ephors . These facts worked loose into a legend ...
... fact must have been that Pausanias some- how misconducted himself , was recalled , and put to death in circumstances which were capable of being used by superstition and policy against the ephors . These facts worked loose into a legend ...
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... fact of murder , incest , and usurpation is clearly presented , the time of the murder — is it still to come ? —is vague ; and the dramatis personae in the playlet are shifted about in such a way as to leave the identity of the criminal ...
... fact of murder , incest , and usurpation is clearly presented , the time of the murder — is it still to come ? —is vague ; and the dramatis personae in the playlet are shifted about in such a way as to leave the identity of the criminal ...
Contents
HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
HOMER Odysseus Scar | 30 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
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