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Myths of the Odyssey in art and literature (1882)

Harrison, Jane Ellen, 1850-1928 · London, Rivingtons · leaf 220

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have, I think, noHermaphroditic conception. This dim, feeble figure israther a most fit presentation of the haggard, nervousmedium, whose sinews, in Greek pTiraseology, no more One is reminded of the liellshoon (helsko), which the jSTorsemanbound on the feet of his dead in forethought for the… … PI. 2 9, MYTH OF THE DESCENT INTO HADES. 107 bind together the flesh and the bones. It is not the imageof a prophet such as Circe must have pictured when shebade Odysseus seek to the spirit of Theban Teiresias, theblind soothsayer, whose wits abide steadfast.^ We must return for a moment to the…

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