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Title: Handbook of Homeric study
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Browne, Henry, 1853-
Subjects: Homer Homer Civilization, Homeric
Publisher: London, New York, Bombay, Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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sec. i) Geography and Commerce 189 probable a priori that along with much which is imagin-ation there should also be mirrored in the Odysseythe recollection or tradition of early—not necessarily,we repeat, Phoenician—^voyagers. And this antecedentlikelihood is strongly confirmed by the impression ofany average reader of the Odyssey, who amid all themarvels of the poets fairy-domain will yet feel aninward conviction that there is some truth at thebottom of it all. M. B6rard would place Calypso on the very confinesof the then known world, in a little islet on the Africancoast just inside the Pillars of Hercules; others wouldbring her nearer to Charybdis—which is commonlyunderstood to mean the straits of Messina—from whichOdysseus had drifted to the home of the Enchantress.Sicily or its inhabitants are mentioned in both poems,though only cursorily and without any description.With regard to Phasacia (which is, we have said, ofimportance), there is also considerable unanimity;for i

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