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Excerpt from The Iliad of Homer, Chiefly From the Text of Heyne: With Copious English Notes, Illustrating the Grammatical Construction; The Manners and Customs, the Mythology and Antiquities of the Heroic Ages; And Preliminary Observations on Points of Classical Interest and Importance Connected With Homer and His Writ
In preparing an edition of an ancient author, the two points which divide the attention of the Editor are the correctness of his Text, and the adaptation of his illustrations to that class of students, for whom they are more immediately designed. With respect to the former of these essentials, so far as the Iliad is concerned, little room, if any, is left for improvement, by the laborious critical researches of the illustrious Heyne; so that nothing remains but to adopt his readings, with the exception of a few instances, where a casual oversight, or an over-attachment to some favourite theory, may have led him into error. It is somewhat surprising, however, in this age of classical erudition, amid the various useful and learned editions of the Greek and Latin writers, which have issued from the press, that no attempt has been made to accommodate Homer to the study of youth. The editions of the Iliad, which are at present in general use, are strikingly deficient in the means of effecting this important object. That of Dr. Clarke is almost entirely devoted to the comparison of parallel passages from Virgil, and the solution of metrical difficulties, in which he has, for the most part, totally failed; and the minor edition of Heyne consists of little more than meagre explanations of the construction, abridged from the larger work, and brief analyses of each succeeding division of the subject. In these editions, also, the mythology, the customs, manners, and antiquities of the early Greeks, are rarely, and only cursorily, noticed.
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