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Ajax

(Encyclopedia) AjaxAjaxāˈjăks [key], Gr. Aias, in Greek mythology. 1 Hero of the Trojan War, son of Telamon, thus called the Telamonian Ajax, also called Ajax the Greater. In the Iliad he is…

Helen

(Encyclopedia) Helen, in Greek mythology, the most beautiful of women; daughter of Leda and Zeus, and sister of Castor and Pollux and Clytemnestra. While still a young girl Helen was abducted to…

Preface to First Edition - The Odyssey

Preface to Second Edition Preface to First Edition This translation is intended to supplement a work entitled "The Authoress of the Odyssey", which I published in 1897. I could not…

Classics

United States HistoryCommon SenseThomas Paine's Pro-Revolution Pamphlet Give Me Liberty...Patrick Henry's Famous Speech The Federalist PapersA critical study of the U.S. Constitution…

The Congress of Women: Homer and His Poems

by Mrs. Nina Morais Cohen Complete Freedom for WomenDevelopment in Eastern WashingtonHomer and His Poems Nina Morais Cohen is a native of Philadelphia, Pa. She was born December 6, 1855.…

Brewer's: Nutshell

The Iliad in a nutshell. Pliny tells us that Cicero asserts that the whole Iliad was written on a piece of parchment which might be put into a nutshell. Lalanne describes, in his…