| + | Spec. 98: 1007. Je. 27, ’07. 30w. |
Seymour, Thomas Day. Life in the Homeric age. *$4. Macmillan.
7–36949.
Based upon a study of the Homeric poems, this book deals with the life and times as reflected in the poet’s language. Hence it is philological rather than archaeological. The importance of the undertaking to the modern reader lies in the fact that Homer’s picture of the life of his age is the earliest account extant of the culture from which our own is a true lineal descendant. The cosmography and geography of the country are studied, the family, education, dress, food, slavery, trade, sea life and ships, agriculture, animals, worship, arms and war.
“Very learned and extremely readable book, which we heartily recommend both to scholars and to the general reader.” R. T. Tyrrell.
| + + − | Acad. 73: 181. N. 30, ’07. 1250w. |
“Is an admirable addition to a scholar’s bookshelves. There is little doubt that this work is exhaustive and accurate enough to satisfy all but the keenest departmental specialists.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 510. O. 26. 1530w. |
“The work seems too detailed for a younger student, while for the advanced worker it ought to embody more results from archaeology and the increasingly important science of anthropology. Again, one is compelled to notice a regrettable lack of proportion, a habit of repetition that might be called otiose if one did not know the over-conscientious author, and a constant recurrence of a negative method elucidation.” F. B. R. Hellems.