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- Author: Thomas Okey
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 268
- ISBN-10: 1515134814
- ISBN-13: 9781515134817
- Format: 18.9 x 24.6 x 1.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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THE mediaeval scribe in the fulness of a divinely-revealed cosmogony is wont to begin his story at the creation of the world or at the confusion of tongues, to trace the building of Troy by the descendants of Japheth, and the foundation of his own native city by one of the Trojan princes made a fugitive in Europe by proud Ilion's fall. Such, he was very sure, was the origin of Padua, founded by Antenor and by Priam, son of King Priam, whose grandson, yet another Priam, by his great valour and wisdom became the monarch of a mighty people, called from their fair hair, Galli or Gallici. And of the strong city built on the little island in the Seine who could have been its founder but the ravisher of fair Helen-Sir Paris himself? The naive etymology of the time was evidence enough
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- Author: Thomas Okey
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 268
- ISBN-10: 1515134814
- ISBN-13: 9781515134817
- Format: 18.9 x 24.6 x 1.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
THE mediaeval scribe in the fulness of a divinely-revealed cosmogony is wont to begin his story at the creation of the world or at the confusion of tongues, to trace the building of Troy by the descendants of Japheth, and the foundation of his own native city by one of the Trojan princes made a fugitive in Europe by proud Ilion's fall. Such, he was very sure, was the origin of Padua, founded by Antenor and by Priam, son of King Priam, whose grandson, yet another Priam, by his great valour and wisdom became the monarch of a mighty people, called from their fair hair, Galli or Gallici. And of the strong city built on the little island in the Seine who could have been its founder but the ravisher of fair Helen-Sir Paris himself? The naive etymology of the time was evidence enough
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