Gardner, Percy, 1846-1937 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 264
sword (Fig. 82). Otto Jahn has well observed that there is a parallelism between the use of fixed schemes in painting and the use of fixed epithets in the epic. To Homer all the Achaeans have flowing locks, the Trojans are tamers of horses; the wine is always dark, all the women beautiful, and all… … “When they had put from them the desire of meat and drink.” And in the Homeric similes we find the lion constantly appear- ing in slightly varied connections and actions, just as the riders of the Parthenon frieze or the fighting groups of the Mausoleum are slightly varied one from another. In the…
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