4/13/2024 0 Comments Custom maid 3d 2 sybaris 1.58![]() Khalif Omar - an event from which the cause of civilisation has not, Passing through many other perils, to have finally been burnt by the Works, accumulated in the Alexandrine Library, are reported, after ![]() Intention to enumerate the names of those many hundred authors whose In undertaking to write a history of Grecian literature, it is not our The history will be brought down to theĮxtinction of tbe ^eathei^ literature of Greece.Ī copious index will accompany the second volume. The work will be completed in about sixty chapters, and will The errata) will be inserted at the end of the second volume. AnyĬorrections which he may furnish (in addition to those noticed in The translation has been executed in correspondence with theĪuthor^ who has read and approved of the larger part of it. Works of modem critics, either foreign or native. Tioned in the notes: but few references have been given to the Agreeably with this view, theĬhief original authorities for the statements in the text are men. To scholars, and particularly to persons commencing or pursuing The present work is intended to be within theĬompass of the general reader but at the same time to be useful ![]() Introduced into the series of works published under their super. Source from which the literature of the civilized world almostĮxclusively derives its origin and since it still contains theįinest productions of the human mind in poetry, history, oratory^Īnd philosophy a history of Greek Literature would be properly The Society thought that, since the Greek Literature is the Greek Literature had been published in the English language. German text has never been published, so that the present trans-īefore the publication of the present work, no history of The work has been written in German, and hasīeen translated under the superintendence of the Society ' but the Of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and for itsĮxclusive use. The following History of Greek Literature has been com. It remained one of the best books on the subject for many years. Donaldson, who carried the work down to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks. were translated by Sir George Cornewall Lewis chapters xxiii.-xxxvi. Geschichte der griechischen Literatür (1841) is a book by Karl Otfried Müller translated into English as History of the Literature of Ancient Greece.Ĭhapters i.-xxii. Aristophanes, in his Acharnians, gives a most vivid picture of the Attic usages in this respect : in that play, the worthy Dicaeopolis, while war is raging around, alone peacefully celebrates the country Dionysia on his own farm he has sacrificed with his slaves, and now prepares for the sacred procession his daughter carries the basket as Canephorus behind her the slave holds the phallus aloft and, while his wife regards the procession from the roof of the house, he himself begins the phallus song, "O Phales, boon companion of Bacchus, thou nightly reveller!" with that strange mixture of wantonness and serious piety which was possible only in the elementary religions of the ancient world."- History of the Literature of Ancient Greece (1841) by Karl Otfried Müller The ancients give us many hints about the variegated garments, the coverings for the face, such as masks or thick chaplets of flowers, and the processions and songs of these comus singers. Such phallophoric or ithyphallic songs were customary in various regions of Greece. The symbol of the productive power of nature was carried about by this band of revellers, and a wild, jovial song was recited in honour of the god in whom dwells this power of nature, namely, Bacchus himself, or one of his companions. ![]() "With the Bacchic comus, which turned a noisy festal banquet into a boisterous procession of revellers, a custom was from the earliest times connected, which was the first cause of the origin of comedy. ![]()
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