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Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age

Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age is a book written by four-time British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone in 1858, discussing a range of issues in Homer including an original thesis on colour perception in Ancient Greece. Gladstone was M.P. for the University of Oxford at the time of publication, but had been trained as a classicist.


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“Decision by majorities is as much an expedient, as lighting by gas.”

William Ewart Gladstone book Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age

Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age (Oxford University Press, 1858), p. 116.
1850s

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