READING THE ODYSSEY.
| Publisher | Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. |
| Publication | Quadrant |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0033-5002 |
| Issues per Year | 10 |
| Published | 2001-07-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | B.J. Coman |
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When I began to write my history I was inclined to count these legends as foolishness, but on getting as far as Arcadia I grew to hold a more thoughtful view of them, which is this. In the days of old those Greeks who were considered wise spoke their sayings not straight out but in riddles, and so the legends about Cronus I conjectured to be one sort of Greek wisdom. In matters of divinity, therefore, I shall adopt the received tradition.
--Pausanias, Description of Greece
I WAS ALREADY a grey-haired man before I discovered the Odyssey. Like so many others of my...
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