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Homer D.C.L And .M. The P. For Homeric T...
acknowled Homer the ged fulness , on the of moral one side and and intelli on gent the being other alike . The consummat conversation e , alike of of Uland in the
that Twenty Hector of and Helen -third Andromache Od in yssey the palace , the in position the he of wishes Sixth Menelaus of Iliad to Arete , , all at tell his the ysses one court and lication of Penelope the Alcinous s in ame Scheria , tale and .
Ul to ysses the King , for examp does it le b , y where falling at the Q / ueen convey ' s feet : but supp she does not supplicate her husband in , the palace : the of address Menelaus to her on seems such a to footing have relativel sufficed . y to And her Helen
husband appears as , would perfectly befit the , present relations of man and woman . tor Nay , where , we may she take touches the on speech the character of Helen in of the Paris Sixth , as equal Iliad , to addressed any of them to Hec by
-, of social indication . What we there read is not the sagacity or intelliway gence session about of the of the character the speaker standing of , but her ground it husband th is the from uthori right and which its of failing the of she her wife can s , ( her so so to acknowledged speak call her , and ) to speak speak
poswith firmness , nay # , even wi * an aty * own . # _<* There is not in the whole of the poems liberties an instance taken of with rude them or abusive in the
manners for course her of vice towards dail and y life insolence women . If Melantho . as The such conduct gets , or hard of of the words Ithacan , it is not Suitors as a to woman Penelope , but , affords the evidence of the
as it is represented in the Odyssey , strongest respect no strong in party which of women adherents were to held the . famil Her y son ; yet had the been highfiown a child insolence : there was of should is at bay for
the" Suitorsdemanding that she marry again , kept years While conjugal " We , and admitting find attachments never , throug proceeds the hout that which superior the his to , violence poems from heart beauty all those is . that of signs Cal has ypso of preceded the as day an overpowering , for Immortal we Penelope might , force Ul expect ysses It of is .
the frankl hi y hest owns honor to her of a hero to die fighting pining on behalf every of his wife and children . . The continuance g of domestic happ excites iness the , and the of concord the of and man they and inter wife ,
rupt is a blessing it by some so great adverse , that di it sp when ensation . and And envy wife no dwell wonder gods together ; , for nothing in unity has of
earth irit : to their offer friends better rejoic , than e , their foes man repine : the human heart has nothing more sp to desire . There is here apparentl that it y includes involved and that concentrates great and character in itself
after istic all other idea relating loves of the . the conjugal And slaughter this relation very of her ide , a famil is expressed by Achilles by Andromache she tells , Hector where ,
y , , * Hectornay but thou art for me a father , and a mother , and a brother , as well as , the attachment husband of lies my youth by . ' ing To that which neither he the in fate the of same Troy spirit which of
he move enlarged sees his aj _> soul proaching like the , nor rep thoug of , ht Hecuba , that say , Andromache nor of Priam will , nor as of a captive his brothers weave , , can the for dame of of ypereia
web " , With and bear the the pictures pitcher which , we some can thus the find Messe characters widel or y scattered H which . over has the
poems characters given , us of of the woman do relations not herself find of the woman are viragos in to thoroug others the , termagants h harmony . the A incarnate . mong Homer his fiends living
we , , , lence of the even later as legends a protection . _N " ay , against the woman wrong of . Homer It must never be admitted dreams , of that using he does
vionot even , present to us the heroine in any more _pronoiinced form than that of the moral endurance creation of Penelope but . The perhaps heroine imp prop l er ing , the state Joan of of things Arc ,
more is certainl abnormal y a noble than that which : yet had one been reached b y y the a Greeks of the ictures of which Homer sents to
X Homeric _^ erfeot pictures age . The ; but p they are pictures women , simply of mothers pre , matrons , sister us , are s ,
849 Notices Of . Books-;
849 NOTICES OF . BOOKS- ;
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 349, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/61/
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