The Ionian Islands in the Year 1863 (Paperback) - 5 Angebote vergleichen

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This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 118 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: . . . CHAPTER IX. EXCURSIONS FROM BATHI CAVE OF DEXIA ANCIENT AND MODERN GROTTOES OF THE NAIADS THE PRINCES PONY VISIT TO CORAX AND THE FOUNTAIN OF ARETHUSA--THE CLIFF AT ARETHUSAS FOUNTAIN WATER AND FERNS OVERHANGING THE SOURCE CATHARA AND THE ANCIENT NE RITOS VIEW FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOP HOSPITALITY OP THE SUPERIOR AT CATHARA LENTEN REPAST PROVIDED FOR THE TRAVELLER AIT0S, OR THE EAGLES CLIFF CASTLE OF ULYSSES GREAT EXTENT OF THE RUINS STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE THE ACROPOLIS--VIEW FROM AITOS LAERTES FARM Homers POETICAL USE OF ITHACA AND ITS BUILDINGS DEFENDED CALAMOS, PETALA AND THE ECHINADES. The chief excursions from Bathi are four, --all more or less connected with the classical interest with which the island is so completely surrounded. It is as difficult to forget Ulysses and Homer in Ithaca as it would be to forget Shakspeare in Stratford-on-Avon. They meet us at every turn. True or false, the stories of Homers Account Of The Island. 259 the island all hang upon them. It would be difficult to resist the conclusion that much of the description by Homer in the Odyssey really is, and was meant to be, an account of what the poet had seen in Ithaca, even were the question to be calmly and dispassionately discussed by the stay-at-home critic in his easy chair; but when the decision has to be arrived at by the traveller visiting the spot, to doubt the identity is simply impossible. The Ithaca of our day is, and must ever remain, the Ithaca of Homer. Sunny Ithaca Where rises clear with woods of quivering leaves Mount Neritos; and many isles lie round Full close together, --Samoa and Dulichium And forest-crowned Zacynthus. Towards the West With peaks oertopping all, lies in the sea My low-delled Ithaca, while to the East And mid-day sun lie. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.

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Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: . CHAPTER IX. EXCURSIONS FROM BATHI CAVE OF DEXIA ANCIENT AND MODERN GROTTOES OF THE NAIADS THE PRINCE S PONY VISIT TO CORAX AND THE FOUNTAIN OF ARETHUSA--THE CLIFF AT ARETHUSA S FOUNTAIN WATER AND FERNS OVERHANGING THE SOURCE CATHARA AND THE ANCIENT NE RITOS VIEW FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOP HOSPITALITY OP THE SUPERIOR AT CATHARA LENTEN REPAST PROVIDED FOR THE TRAVELLER AIT0S, OR THE EAGLE S CLIFF CASTLE OF ULYSSES GREAT EXTENT OF THE RUINS STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE THE ACROPOLIS--VIEW FROM AITOS LAERTES FARM Homer s POETICAL USE OF ITHACA AND ITS BUILDINGS DEFENDED CALAMOS, PETALA AND THE ECHINADES. The chief excursions from Bathi are four, --all more or less connected with the classical interest with which the island is so completely surrounded. It is as difficult to forget Ulysses and Homer in Ithaca as it would be to forget Shakspeare in Stratford-on-Avon. They meet us at every turn. True or false, the stories of Homer s Account Of The Island. 259 the island all hang upon them. It would be difficult to resist the conclusion that much of the description by Homer in the Odyssey really is, and was meant to be, an account of what the poet had seen in Ithaca, even were the question to be calmly and dispassionately discussed by the stay-at-home critic in his easy chair; but when the decision has to be arrived at by the traveller visiting the spot, to doubt the identity is simply impossible. The Ithaca of our day is, and must ever remain, the Ithaca of Homer. Sunny Ithaca Where rises clear with woods of quivering leaves Mount Neritos; and many isles lie round Full close together, --Samoa and Dulichium And forest-crowned Zacynthus. Towards the West With peaks o ertopping all, lies in the sea My low-delled Ithaca, while to the East And mid-day sun lie.

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Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: . CHAPTER IX. EXCURSIONS FROM BATHI CAVE OF DEXIA ANCIENT AND MODERN GROTTOES OF THE NAIADS THE PRINCE S PONY VISIT TO CORAX AND THE FOUNTAIN OF ARETHUSA--THE CLIFF AT ARETHUSA S FOUNTAIN WATER AND FERNS OVERHANGING THE SOURCE CATHARA AND THE ANCIENT NE RITOS VIEW FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOP HOSPITALITY OP THE SUPERIOR AT CATHARA LENTEN REPAST PROVIDED FOR THE TRAVELLER AIT0S, OR THE EAGLE S CLIFF CASTLE OF ULYSSES GREAT EXTENT OF THE RUINS STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE THE ACROPOLIS--VIEW FROM AITOS LAERTES FARM Homer s POETICAL USE OF ITHACA AND ITS BUILDINGS DEFENDED CALAMOS, PETALA AND THE ECHINADES. The chief excursions from Bathi are four, --all more or less connected with the classical interest with which the island is so completely surrounded. It is as difficult to forget Ulysses and Homer in Ithaca as it would be to forget Shakspeare in Stratford-on-Avon. They meet us at every turn. True or false, the stories of Homer s Account Of The Island. 259 the island all hang upon them. It would be difficult to resist the conclusion that much of the description by Homer in the Odyssey really is, and was meant to be, an account of what the poet had seen in Ithaca, even were the question to be calmly and dispassionately discussed by the stay-at-home critic in his easy chair; but when the decision has to be arrived at by the traveller visiting the spot, to doubt the identity is simply impossible. The Ithaca of our day is, and must ever remain, the Ithaca of Homer. Sunny Ithaca Where rises clear with woods of quivering leaves Mount Neritos; and many isles lie round Full close together, --Samoa and Dulichium And forest-crowned Zacynthus. Towards the West With peaks o ertopping all, lies in the sea My low-delled Ithaca, while to the East And mid-day sun lie.

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David Thomas Ansted, Books, History, The Ionian Islands in the Year 1863, The Ionian Islands in the Year 1863.

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