The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 201A. Constable, 1905 |
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Page 201
... Messenia , opposite the island of Sphacteria . All three have laid claim , since the earliest days of history , to the honour of being Nestor's residence . It will be found that the second is the right one . Far more numerous are the ...
... Messenia , opposite the island of Sphacteria . All three have laid claim , since the earliest days of history , to the honour of being Nestor's residence . It will be found that the second is the right one . Far more numerous are the ...
Page 202
... Messenian bay ; a third in the western district of Achaia , in the valley of the Pirus . None of these can be connected with Telemachus . Clearly it is by the words of Homer alone , compared with the actually existing physical facts ...
... Messenian bay ; a third in the western district of Achaia , in the valley of the Pirus . None of these can be connected with Telemachus . Clearly it is by the words of Homer alone , compared with the actually existing physical facts ...
Page 203
... Messenia , the Pheres to which he proceeds must obviously be the Pheræ in the north - east of the Messenian Gulf , and not only would he have many mountains to pass to get there , but the Taygetus chain would lie beyond , between him ...
... Messenia , the Pheres to which he proceeds must obviously be the Pheræ in the north - east of the Messenian Gulf , and not only would he have many mountains to pass to get there , but the Taygetus chain would lie beyond , between him ...
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... Messenian Pheræ is part of a Heptapolis in Messenia under the control of Agamemnon , who offers the seven cities , as their overlord , to Achilles . * Lastly , it may be pointed out that the former town has fields of grain around it ...
... Messenian Pheræ is part of a Heptapolis in Messenia under the control of Agamemnon , who offers the seven cities , as their overlord , to Achilles . * Lastly , it may be pointed out that the former town has fields of grain around it ...
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... Messenian Pylos near Sphacteria . The excavation of the true Pylos near the Alpheus remains to be achieved , and it is not likely to prove unfruitful . The site here discovered agrees as well with the indications of the Iliad as with ...
... Messenian Pylos near Sphacteria . The excavation of the true Pylos near the Alpheus remains to be achieved , and it is not likely to prove unfruitful . The site here discovered agrees as well with the indications of the Iliad as with ...
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