Highways Byways in Literature (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Highways Byways in Literature (Classic Reprint) written by Hugh Farrie and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Highways Byways in Literature "There is no trace in literature of what we now understand by the word 'love' earlier than the end of the fourth century B.C." So wrote the late Mr E. F. M. Benecke in the posthumous "Fragment printed for the Use of Scholars," entitled Antimachus of Colophon and the Position of Women in Greek Poetry. The object of the work is to prove the proposition contained in the sentence quoted, and to suggest that love in its modern sense was introduced into literature by Antimachus. What Antimachus did or did not do is hard to say, for practically all that remains of him is half a dozen lines from an elegy; some sixty scattered lines from his epic, the Thebais; and a charming little epigram in the Greek Anthology. Two other epigrams speak of him as next to Homer in poetic rank, and several authors, among them Cicero, Plutarch, and Quintilian, allude to him. Mr Benecke, however, like other English scholars, was not deterred by the scantiness of his materials from undertaking to spin a very big theory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.