Familiar Studies in Homer
Familiar Studies in Homer
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Homer's name for this fine tree extended, perhaps, to the closely allied Quercus esculus is pliegos, signifying ' edible, ' and denoting, in other European languages, the beech. How, then, did it come to be transferred, south of the Ceraunian mountains, to a totally different kind of 1 Iliad, xii. 131-34.
TREES AND FLOWERS IN HOMER. 153 tree ? The explanation is simple. No beeches grew in the Hellenic peninsula when the first Aryan settlers entered it. A word was hence left derelict, and was na...turally claimed by a conspicuous forest-tree, until then anonymous, because unknown further north, which shared with the beech its characteristic quality so the necessities of hunger caused it to be esteemed of producing fruit capable, after a fashion, of sup- porting life. 1 So, in the United States, the English names 'robin/ 'hemlock, ' 'maple, ' and probably many others, were unceremoniously handed on to strange species, on the strength of some casual or superficial resemblances. 2 The tradition of acorn-eating con- nected with the rustic Arcadians applied evidently to the fruit of the valonia-oak, or one of its nearest congeners; 3 and the oracular oak of Dodona, to which Odysseus pretended to have hied for counsel, appears to have been of the same description ; as was certainly the tree of Zeus before the Sca3an gate, whence Apollo and Athene watched the single combat between Hector and Ajax, and beneath which the spear of Tlepolemus was wrenched from the flesh of the fainting Sarpedon.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Homer's name for this fine tree extended, perhaps, to the closely allied Quercus esculus is pliegos, signifying ' edible, ' and denoting, in other European languages, the beech. How, then, did it come to be transferred, south of the Ceraunian mountains, to a totally different kind of 1 Iliad, xii. 131-34.
TREES AND FLOWERS IN HOMER. 153 tree ? The explanation is simple. No beeches grew in the Hellenic peninsula when the first Aryan settlers entered it. A word was hence left derelict, and was na...turally claimed by a conspicuous forest-tree, until then anonymous, because unknown further north, which shared with the beech its characteristic quality so the necessities of hunger caused it to be esteemed of producing fruit capable, after a fashion, of sup- porting life. 1 So, in the United States, the English names 'robin/ 'hemlock, ' 'maple, ' and probably many others, were unceremoniously handed on to strange species, on the strength of some casual or superficial resemblances. 2 The tradition of acorn-eating con- nected with the rustic Arcadians applied evidently to the fruit of the valonia-oak, or one of its nearest congeners; 3 and the oracular oak of Dodona, to which Odysseus pretended to have hied for counsel, appears to have been of the same description ; as was certainly the tree of Zeus before the Sca3an gate, whence Apollo and Athene watched the single combat between Hector and Ajax, and beneath which the spear of Tlepolemus was wrenched from the flesh of the fainting Sarpedon.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Agnes M Agnes Mary Clerke to read onlineMoreLess
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