Excerpt from Samuel Butler: Records and Memorials Iliad was composed by an actual hostage in the hands of the Greeks, who had his own reasons for hating both sides, and who deliberately told the tale of Troy in such a fashion as to hold up Achilles and the other victorious heroes to odium and ridicule. It is probable that Mr Butler started this theory as a hoax, but there can be little doubt that he wrote himself into the acceptance of it, in the end, with complete and genuine conviction. About the Publisher Forgotten ...
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Excerpt from Samuel Butler: Records and Memorials Iliad was composed by an actual hostage in the hands of the Greeks, who had his own reasons for hating both sides, and who deliberately told the tale of Troy in such a fashion as to hold up Achilles and the other victorious heroes to odium and ridicule. It is probable that Mr Butler started this theory as a hoax, but there can be little doubt that he wrote himself into the acceptance of it, in the end, with complete and genuine conviction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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