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Excerpt from The First Six Books of the Iliad of Homer: Translated Into Fourteen-Slyllable Verse: With Preface and Notes, and a Map of Greece in the Homeric Age
All the critics of antiquity, both Greek and Latin, unite in extolling the consummate skill exhibited by Homer in his mode of commencing the Iliad and the Odyssey. In this respect, says Aristotle, does Homer wonderfully stand forth before and above all others, in that he attempts not to describe the circumstances of the entire war in their order from beginning to end, but brings in the events, which precede the action of his poem, in episodes from time to time. 9.
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