Excerpt from Women of the Classics: With Sixteen Photogravures Presenting Studies of the Heroines of the Book The women in this book arc the heroines of Homer, of Attic Tragedy, and of the AEneid of Virgil. Their stories are taken out of the best modern translations of the old poems; and they are retold from the human standpoint, with the minimum of critical comment. It is curious, when we reflect a moment, how little we really know about the women of the classics. Their names have been familiar to us as long as we can remember. We have always been vaguely conscious of a glory clothing them - sometimes sombre and troubled, often gracious and serene, occasionally enchanting. About the greatest of 'them some floating hints of identity ripple on the surface of the mind. But we can by no means fit these little fragments into any clear outline of the sublime beauty of their originals. And when we light upon a reference to them in our reading, or stand before one of the innumerable works of art which they have inspired, memory is baffled.

We have no clue to the spell that they have cast upon the centuries: the spell itself has no power over us; and we grope in vain for the key which would admit us to a world of delight. There were reasons for this state of affairs when translations were few and costly: when scholars were merely pedants and when the classics were scaled to women. But nous avons change tout cela. Fine translations can be bought for a few shillings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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