 | Arthur Aikin - 1803 - 996 pages
...on each other. This appears from the snme passage of Lilian. " These loo.se songs," bays Bentley, " were not collected together in the form of an epic poem, till Pisistratus's time, about 500 years after." Passages to this effect may be found in Cicero and other... | |
 | 1831 - 624 pages
...festivals and other days of merriment : the Iliad he madu for the men, and the Odysseis for the other sex. These loose songs were not collected together in the form of an epic poem till about Pisistratus' time, about five hundred yean after.' t Jacob Bryant probably Knc.v little of this... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1833 - 574 pages
...to be sung by himself for small earnings, and good cheer at festivals and other days of merriment. These loose songs were not collected together in the form of an epic poem, till about five hundred years ^f after.' It is remarkable, that this passage, coming as it did from the... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Classical poetry - 1838 - 578 pages
...festivals and other days of merriment ; the Ilias he made for the men, and the Odyssels for the other sex. These loose songs were not collected together in the form of an epic poem till Pisistratus's time, abovcf 500 years after. Nor is there one word in Homer that presages or promises... | |
 | 1839 - 648 pages
...went so far as to deny that such a poet ever existed. cheer at festivals and other days of merriment. These loose songs were not collected together in the form of an epic poem, till about five hundred years after." It is remarkable, that this passage, coming as it did from the Coryphseus... | |
 | Alexander Hill Everett - American literature - 1845 - 590 pages
...festivals and other days of merriment. The Iliad he made for the men and the Odysseis for the other sex. These loose songs were not collected together in the form of an epic poem till Pisistratus's time, about five hundred years after." Whether all these poems were written originally... | |
 | Theology - 1857 - 924 pages
...personal existence of Homer. Bentley (Reply to Collins' s Discourse on Free Thinking: 1713) says : " Homer wrote a sequel of songs and rhapsodies. These loose songs were not collected together, into the form of an Epic poem, until five hundred years later." Vico (Principii di Una Scienza Nuova... | |
 | Charles Anthon - Greek literature - 1853 - 600 pages
...already doubted the common belief respecting Homer, and the great Bentley had said expressly that " Homer wrote a sequel of songs and rhapsodies. These loose...collected together in the form of an epic poem till about 500 years after."2 Some French writers, Perault and Hedelin, and the Italian Vico, had made similar... | |
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He wrote a sequel of songs and rhapsodies, to be sung by himself for small earnings and good cheer, at festivals and other days of merriment ; the Ilias he made for the men, and the Odysseis for the other sex. 
