he replied.
And narration may be either simple narration, or imitation, or a union of the two?
That again, he said, I do not quite understand.
Analysis of the dramatic element in Epic poetry.
I fear that I must be a ridiculous teacher when I have so much difficulty in making myself apprehended.
Like a bad speaker, therefore, I will not take the whole of the subject, but will break a piece off in illustration of my meaning.
You know the first lines of the Iliad, in which the poet says that Chryses prayed Agamemnon to release his daughter, and that Agamemnon flew into a passion with him; whereupon Chryses, failing of his object, invoked the anger of the God against the Achaeans.
Now as far as these lines,
‘And he prayed all the Greeks, but especially