Iliad

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Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762
http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/dbworkshop/index.php/Detail/objects/64422
Accessed on 2021/01/23 20:07:00

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              <ptr target="ukred-12629">"It is true, the excellence of the Iliad does not depend upon his merit or dignity, but I wish, nevertheless, that Homer had chosen a hero somewhat less pettish and less fantastic: a perfect hero is chimerical and unnatural, and consequently uninstructive; but it is also true that while the epic hero ought to be drawn with the infirmities that are the lot of humanity, he ought never to be represented as extremely absurd."</ptr>
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