Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Iliad of Homer, Vol. 2: With English Notes
It is generally held that the Tragics preferred to take their themes from certain later, inferior, and merely supplementary poems, rather than from the Iliad and the Odyssey, either be cause they found the incidents of the former more fit for their purpose, or because they hesitated to trench on ground which they regarded as almost consecrated by the unique genius of the Divine Homer.
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