: the assumption
of Mentor's form by the guardian deity of the wise Ulysses, Minerva.
of Mentor's form by the guardian deity of the wise Ulysses, Minerva.
Iliad - Pope
Gr.
T.
viii.
P.
851.
logois gar estia,
Athenaeus vii p 275, A
11 It was at Bolissus, and in the house of this Chian citizen, that
Homer is said to have written the Batrachomyomachia, or Battle of
the Frogs and Mice, the Epicichlidia, and some other minor works.
12 Chandler, Travels, vol. i. p. 61, referred to in the Voyage
Pittoresque dans la Grece, vol. i. P. 92, where a view of the spot
is given of which the author candidly says,-- "Je ne puis repondre
d'une exactitude scrupuleuse dans la vue generale que j'en donne,
car etant alle seul pour l'examiner je perdis mon crayon, et je fus
oblige de m'en fier a ma memoire. Je ne crois cependant pas avoir
trop a me plaindre d'elle en cette occasion. "
13 A more probable reason for this companionship, and for the character
of Mentor itself, is given by the allegorists, viz.
: the assumption
of Mentor's form by the guardian deity of the wise Ulysses, Minerva.
The classical reader may compare Plutarch, Opp. t. ii. p. 880;
_Xyland. _ Heraclid. Pont. Alleg. Hom. p. 531-5, of Gale's Opusc.
Mythol. Dionys. Halic. de Hom.
Athenaeus vii p 275, A
11 It was at Bolissus, and in the house of this Chian citizen, that
Homer is said to have written the Batrachomyomachia, or Battle of
the Frogs and Mice, the Epicichlidia, and some other minor works.
12 Chandler, Travels, vol. i. p. 61, referred to in the Voyage
Pittoresque dans la Grece, vol. i. P. 92, where a view of the spot
is given of which the author candidly says,-- "Je ne puis repondre
d'une exactitude scrupuleuse dans la vue generale que j'en donne,
car etant alle seul pour l'examiner je perdis mon crayon, et je fus
oblige de m'en fier a ma memoire. Je ne crois cependant pas avoir
trop a me plaindre d'elle en cette occasion. "
13 A more probable reason for this companionship, and for the character
of Mentor itself, is given by the allegorists, viz.
: the assumption
of Mentor's form by the guardian deity of the wise Ulysses, Minerva.
The classical reader may compare Plutarch, Opp. t. ii. p. 880;
_Xyland. _ Heraclid. Pont. Alleg. Hom. p. 531-5, of Gale's Opusc.
Mythol. Dionys. Halic. de Hom.
