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Excerpt from The Truth About Homer: With Some Remarks on Prof. Jebb's Introduction to Homer
Would it not have been fair and reasonable to point out, aecom panying it with any explanation in his power, the fact (to take one typical example), that Aeschylus composed that noble play the Agamemnon from an entirely different Homer, and that the sacrifice of Iphigenia, the joyful reception of Helen at Troy, the reluctance of Odysseus to join the expedition, the burning of llium, the storm which dispersed the ?eet on its return, are all Cyclic (so-called)
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