A History of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander the Great
by Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman (9781150137617)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1901 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green, and co. Subjects: Greece History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Greece History / Europe / Greece Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Homer. (The traditional portrait.) CHAPTER III. THE HOMERIC POEMS, AND THE GREEKS OF THE HEROIC AGE. We have seen that long ages before any authentic history of the Hellenes begins, we can glean some idea of their life and manners from the evidence of monuments and excavations, and also -- though here the greatest caution must be used -- from their inexhaustible store of myths and legends. But the twilight glimmer which these researches shed upon the prehistoric age in Greece is sheer darkness compared with the flood of light which is thrown upon it by the immortal works which pass under the name of Homer. The Iliad and the Odyssey are a pair of lengthy epic poems, which deal with two episodes in a great war. The Greek princes, we read, were once gathered together by Agamemnon The IJieA King of Mycenae, the greatest sovereign in the land, to and the aid him in an expedition to Asia. Paris, sou of Priam the Teucrian, had stolen Helen, the wife of Agamemnon, s brother Menelaus, and borne her off to his father, s city of Troy. The . Greeks accordingly sailed to punish the seducer, and beleaguered Troy for ten long years. But it is not the whole of the war with which the Iliad deals. ." Achilles, a prince of Phthiotis, was the bravest and most beautiful of the whole Greek host, but he was proud and headstrong, and was drawn into a bitter quarrel with King Agamemnon. He retired from the battle, and sat sullenly brooding in his tent till the Greeks were dri...

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