 ... Pope's Essay on Man, or Mandeville's Fable of the Bees. Thus Empedocles is peculiarly interesting as the last thinker in European philosophy who brought out a new system in the form of a poem. His fragments are preserved in Sextus Empiricus, Plutarch,,...  A History of Classical Greek Literature - 129. lappuseautors: John Pentland Mahaffy - 1880Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - 1880 - 588 lapas
...fragments are preserved in Sextus Empiricus, Plutarch, and Simplicius, and are best collected by Miillach (in Didot's Fragg. Philosoph.). There are interesting...hymns of the choral lyric poets. The Homeric Hymns are essentiallyjsecular and not religious; they seem distinctly intended to be 'recited in competitions... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1890 - 210 lapas
...Cf. note on 9 17 above, and the index of proper names. Hymns. See Mahaffy, Hist. Grk. Lit. I. 129: "There are transmitted to us, under the title of Homeric...rhapsodes, and in some cases even for direct pay." An English translation was made by George Chapman, and may be found in his works, of which a convenient... | |
 | Harold North Fowler - 1902 - 532 lapas
...c., though even this is somewhat uncertain. A few other mock-heroic epics are known only by title. A collection of five longer and twenty-nine shorter poems in epic dialect and metre has come down to us under the title of Hymns and Procemia of H emn°mer10 Homer and the Homeridcs.... | |
 | Harold North Fowler - 1902 - 524 lapas
...c., though even this is somewhat uncertain. A few other mock-heroic epics are known only by title. A collection of five longer and twenty-nine shorter poems in epic dialect and metre has come down to us under the title of Hymns and Procemia of Homer and the Homeridcv. These so-called... | |
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