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Four-time prime minister William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was
also a prolific author and enthusiastic scholar of the classics.
Gladstone had spent almost two decades in politics prior to his
writing the three-volume Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age. This
work and the preceding 'On the place of Homer in classical
education and in historical inquiry' (1857), reflect Gladstone's
interest in the Iliad and the Odyssey, which he read with
increasing frequency from the 1830s onward and which he viewed as
particularly relevant to modern society. As he relates, he has two
objects in the Studies: 'to promote and extend' the study of
Homer's 'immortal poems' and 'to vindicate for them ... their just
degree both of absolute and, more especially, of relative critical
value'. Volume 1 establishes Homer's contemporary relevance and
provides an extensive 'ethnography of Greek races' related to
Homer's works.
Four-time prime minister William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was
also a prolific author and enthusiastic scholar of the classics.
Gladstone had spent almost two decades in politics prior to his
writing the three-volume Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age. This
work and the preceding 'On the place of Homer in classical
education and in historical inquiry' (1857), reflect Gladstone's
interest in the Iliad and the Odyssey, which he read with
increasing frequency from the 1830s onward and which he viewed as
particularly relevant to modern society. As he relates, he has two
objects in the Studies: 'to promote and extend' the study of
Homer's 'immortal poems' and 'to vindicate for them ... their just
degree both of absolute and, more especially, of relative critical
value'. Volume 2 presents an exhaustive study of the
'Theo-mythology', religious traditions and sources, and morals of
Homer's age.
Four-time prime minister William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was
also a prolific author and enthusiastic scholar of the classics.
Gladstone had spent almost two decades in politics prior to his
writing the three-volume Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age. This
work and the preceding 'On the place of Homer in classical
education and in historical inquiry' (1857), reflect Gladstone's
interest in the Iliad and the Odyssey, which he read with
increasing frequency from the 1830s onward and which he viewed as
particularly relevant to modern society. As he relates, he has two
objects in the Studies: 'to promote and extend' the study of
Homer's 'immortal poems' and 'to vindicate for them ... their just
degree both of absolute and, more especially, of relative critical
value'. Volume 3 examines Greek polities of this period before
returning to the poems themselves, their plots, characters and the
beauty of their language.
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Homer (Hardcover)
William Ewart Gladstone
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William Ewart Gladstone
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