The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-10-07

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: HOMER'S ILIAD 3
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
IL n the charm Of the stories Of
the Had and the Odyssey that has
ailured readers In all ages. Al the
Hal In the nrst great romance Of high
adventure, OF deeds Of perfect ehivalry
a.d Wild aghtsag. of brave men and
noble women - the Odyssey n the
nrst great novel of adventure In
str.nxe parts, Of misereants thrvarsed
and brought TO Justice By the hero who
On the end comes 10 his own and res-
cues the true wife who hides ut home
and waits the triumphaat return of
him who shall free her from the trials
that beset her.
The Creeks started the modern
world going. An with Icarus they
thought Of the nying-man, with AEn-
memnon Of wireless teleGraphy I'm the
message he sent leaping across the sea
from Troy to Argos In the flames upon
the hill-tops, and with Odysseus Of
the motion-picture In the vision of all
past men and women who fitted he
fore his eyes ON his trip to the lower
sworld, 20, too. they introduced M to
Fpg1ctienlly every form OF human ey-
pression. The prose-rOmanee came lnte
I'm their development. The novel and
the short story M they knew them for
centuries were embodied In the Hind
and Odyssey.
whether one poet wrote the HAD md
the Odyssey has been . question that
has busted many thousands Of minds.
The perfect form I'm which they hive
come down to US proves clearly that
many centuries contributed to the per-
fecting Of the literary style In which
they are written. The discussions over
the "Homeric ProbIem" hive laid the
basis for literary and biblical criticism
I'm modern schOlarHh1p.
TINE elders Of the Trojans from
their seats upon the Scaean
gate looked down upon the
hosts of Greeks and Trojans mar
shaled in the plain. For nine long
years the armies had contended. why
had Agamemnon brought the men OF
many cities to fight around the walls
of Priam's Troy3 What was 1t oil
about?
Homer sings Of the wrath OF
Achilles, but the beginning Of all the
trouble goes back of that, to the tale
Of a princely shepherd on night sur
prised as he watched his fiocks upOr
Mount Ida. The goddesses Hera
Athene and Aphrodite make him
choose one Of the world-old wishes
the judgment of Paris is for fail
face and love. To fulfill her promis.
Nphrodite leads him to King Meme
laus' court in SpaHta. Back to Troy
Paris brings Queen Helen and grea
treasure. A hue and cry follow
throughout Greece; Menelaus calls tt
his help the great overload, his broth
er Agamemnon, Achilles the sacker O
cities, willy Odysseus, venerable ant
genial Nestor, and all the chivalry o
the land with men and ships to maxi
war on Troy.
Others must pay for the wrong
doing Of Paris-old King Priam Of tn
Ashen Spear, his venerable queer
Hecuba, Hector and his noble wifi
Andromache, his little son Astyana1
Cassandra and all the rest whom tn
toll of war involves. Other stories o
the many Greek epics, now lost, brin
the tale Of warning years up to tn
tenth, where the Had begins. HECTIC
is the leader Of the Trojans; Achille
has been the great fighting force Q
a the Greeks, though now he has will
drawn in anger to his tent because 9
a slight put upon his honor by Kin
Agamemnon.
The hostile forces are advancing t
the battle; dramatic moment bring
Menelaus and Paris in sight Of one al
other. The wrath Of Hector blaze
out against Paris for all the evil an
shame his theft of women and wealt
have brought. The gay and debonal
Paris. however. can show splendi
moments. Hector. thy taunt is jus
Int throw not at me the lovely gift
of golden Aphrodite. The gloriou
gifts that the gods give are not to b
lung away; no man could take thel
BY mere willingness. But II thou doe
wish me to battle and fight, make a
The rest Of the Troians and Achaiar
ut down, and put me In the midst wit
varlike Menelaus to fight for Hele
md oil her goods, to see who sha
onQuer and prove the better man
ct the rest conclude a friendship {
rusty oaths; may We dwell in ferti
royland. and the others 60 back
rgos, nurse Of steeds, and Achaia I
hir women"
So 1t was that the hosts sat In hie
kpectation In the plain, and Prial
nd the Trojan elders were gathers
the Scaean gate. And Priam, WI
pre- no grudge against Helen for q