Richard Claverhouse Jebb on Homer
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“The Homeric poems were to the Greeks more than national poems have ever been to any people.”
“The Iliad and the Odyssey belong to the end, not to the beginning, of a poetical epoch. They mark the highest point reached by a school of poetry in Ionia, which began by shaping the rude war-songs of Aeolic bards into short lays, and gradually developed a style suited to heroic narrative.”