The Rise of the Greek Epic (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Rise of the Greek Epic: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at Harvard UniversityThat sort of eighteenth-century or Renaissance classicism is perhaps dead, or no longer an active danger to the under standing of Greek. But there are other classicism which threaten us still Scholars in talking of the classics have allowed the object of their study to become confused with the medium through which they approach it. It is as though a man could not think of the stars except in terms of telescopes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.