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more or less dim family memories , and in which the daughters of that great goddess already had their part . The excavation of Nestor's palace at Pylos furnished , in my opinion , the proof that a very human epic poetry , very attached ...
more or less dim family memories , and in which the daughters of that great goddess already had their part . The excavation of Nestor's palace at Pylos furnished , in my opinion , the proof that a very human epic poetry , very attached ...
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Whether Oinomaos ' passion remained un satisfied or , as others would have it , 279 he was already united to his daughter as her husband , he killed her suitors . His weapons and his horses he had got from Ares ...
Whether Oinomaos ' passion remained un satisfied or , as others would have it , 279 he was already united to his daughter as her husband , he killed her suitors . His weapons and his horses he had got from Ares ...
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The narrators make the hero take this long journey for nothing ; he was no nearer his goal here than he had already been ' at Pylos among the dead , where he had aimed his arrows at gods . He must draw his bow against gods if he would ...
The narrators make the hero take this long journey for nothing ; he was no nearer his goal here than he had already been ' at Pylos among the dead , where he had aimed his arrows at gods . He must draw his bow against gods if he would ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Heroes of the Greeks Myth and man |
| Author | Karl Kerényi |
| Publisher | Thames and Hudson, 1959 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Jun 2009 |
| Length | 439 pages |
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