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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 20, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 2 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], An important letter. (search)
d of that fact. The same author to whom we have just alluded' tells us, in the same poem, that "brave men lived before Agamemnon." There is no doubt of that; nor is there any that they had bards to sing their exploits, too, as Agamemnon had. TraditAgamemnon had. Tradition has preserved the names of Oleins, Linus, Orpheus, Musurus and others, who certainly were real men, although it is certain that the poems ascribed to them were forgeries of a much later age. Homer himself bears abundant testimony to the existencpraises of certain heroes. -- The story of Thamyris, the blind bard, who dwelt with Eurytus, King of ŒChalla, is told. Agamemnon had a poet among his domestics. Phemius, in Ithaca, and Demodocus, in PhŒacia, attend the feast, and entertain the guean indelible impression upon the ages which succeeded it. The incidents of each bore a close resemblance. The story of Agamemnon, whose wife, tired of her long quasi widowhood, took another in his absence, and murdered him when he returned — the hi