 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1891 - 580 pages
...Achilles in his tent is the sun behind the clouds.' The Trojan War, so far from being ' a reflexion of the daily siege of the East by the solar powers, that every evening are robbed of their treasure in the West,' may well relate to stories of an actual combat, however much transformed by... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1864 - 622 pages
...Saramd and IJelene back to some point from which both could have started in common. The siege of Troy is but a repetition of the daily siege of the East...are robbed of their brightest treasures in the West. That siege, in its original form, is the constant theme of the hymns of the Veda. Sarama, it is true,... | |
 | 1864 - 808 pages
...the Panis robbers of the night, and she is recovered by the sun-bright Greeks. " The siege of Troy is but a repetition of the daily siege of the East...powers that every evening are robbed of their brightest treasure of the West. That liege, in its original form, is the constaut theme of the hymns of the Veda.... | |
 | 1864 - 808 pages
...the Pani* robbers of the night, and she is recovered by the sun-bright Gretks. " The siege of Troy is but a repetition of the daily siege of the East...powers that every evening are robbed of their brightest treasure of the West. That siege, in its orignol form, is the constant theme of the hymns of the Veda.... | |
 | 1873 - 972 pages
...outward phenomena."* Professor Max Müller is quoted to show that the " siege of Troy is an exhibition of the daily siege of the East by the solar powers...evening are robbed of their brightest treasures in the West."f The Sun is described under various names as one who is doomed to toil for beings meaner than... | |
 | George William Cox - 1867 - 253 pages
...Ida, and (Enone also died upon his funeral pile. (600) What is this wonderful siege of Troy? It is - a repetition of the daily siege of the east by the...evening are robbed of their brightest treasures in the west.(601) What is the treasure stolen in the whose name is the same as the Indian Sarama, the dawn,... | |
 | Sidney H. Morse, Joseph B. Marvin - 1868 - 538 pages
...significance and beauty. We give a brief selection. " What is this wonderful siege of Troy ? " It is 'a repetition of the daily siege of the east by the...robbed of their brightest treasures in the west.' " What is the treasure stolen in the Iliad ? " Helen, whose name is the same as the Indian SaramS,... | |
 | George William Cox - 1868 - 616 pages
...to Medeia her marvellous wisdom and power. The siege of Troy is, in Professor Max Miiller's words, ' a repetition of the daily siege of the East by the...robbed of their brightest treasures in the West.' It is thus reduced to the mythical phrases which said, ' The light, or the Dawn, is stolen from the... | |
 | William Henry Simcox - 1868 - 86 pages
...and recovery of the honour and beauty of the kingdom itself."' Now the story of Helen represents " the daily siege of the East by the solar powers that every evening are robbed of their brightest treasure in the West.'" In the old time, M. Renan" explained the myth of Apollo and Hermes as typifying... | |
 | 1869 - 614 pages
...would convert realities, like the siege of Troy and the events that followed it, into myths, denoting "a repetition of the daily siege of the east by the...are robbed of their brightest treasures in the west !" The author is, in fact, sunstruck. Every hero is, with him, the sun ; his wife, or bride, or love,... | |
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Miiller maintains that the story of the siege of Troy is a development of this simple Vedic myth, and is " but a repetition of the daily siege of the East by the Solar powers that every evening are robbed of their brightest treasures in the west. 
