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The Worl’s Heritage of Epical Heroic and Romantic Literature

1918

As the wrath of Achilles is the central theme of the Iliad so is the doom of Gilgamesh the central theme of the Babylonian epic. [...] In the symbolism including the colour symbolism and the Otheworld scenery of Dante's masterpiece are survivals from remote antiquity such as the Underground Hell resembling the Bablonian " House of Death" and the Osirian Paradise and Hell and the planetary Heavens resembling the Paradises of the sky gods of Babylonia Egypt and India. [...] The literary remains of the Babylonian temples had been freely drawn upon and it is probable that the Gilgamesh epic was taken from the library of the temple of Merodach in the city of Babylon the London of the ancient world. [...] But the ghost of that man whose corpse has been left unburied and uncared-for knows no rest but prowls through the streets eating scraps of food the leavings of the feast that are thrown away and drinking the dregs of vessels." Thus ends the epic of Gilgamesh." HOMERIC HISTORY AND LEGENDS Introductory The poet Homer to whom the ancient Greeks attributed the authorship of the great epics the [...] The allied army of invasion from Greece had effected a landing at the mouth of the Dardanelles and on the north-west corner of the Troad between the Rivers Simois and Scamander.
philosophy religion
Pages
474
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.143732
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xiv Donald A. Mackenzie view
The Epic of Gilgamesh:the Oldest in the World
1-16 Donald A. Mackenzie view
Homeric History and Legends
17-78 Donald A. Mackenzie view
The Odyssey
79-124 Donald A. Mackenzie view
Virgil’s Aeneid
125-166 Donald A. Mackenzie view
The Mahabharata
167-172 Donald A. Mackenzie view
Mahabadrata
173-228 Donald A. Mackenzie view
The Ramayana
229-274 Donald A. Mackenzie view
Cuchullin Epic
275-324 Donald A. Mackenzie view
Dante’s Divine Comedy
325-382 Donald A. Mackenzie view
The Miltonic Epic
383-452 Donald A. Mackenzie view

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