Assignment: Commentaries
Choose four items from the following five and comment on them, indicating the context and discussing any points of literary, historical or artistic interest.
(a) Homer, Odyssey 1.354-375 (= 1.407-431 Fagles): ‘Odysseus was scarcely the only one .... devour your own possessions, house to house by turns.'.
(b) Hesiod, Theogony 161-173 [p. 8 West]: ‘Without delay she created the element of grey adamant ... so he spoke and mighty Earth was delighted.'
(c) Sappho fr. 31 West: ‘He looks to me to be in heaven ...'.
(d) Herodotus 1.5.3-4 ‘These are the stories of the Persians. ....I will make mention of both alike.'
(e) Image: a statue (see moodle).
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