Joseph Jacobs - The first glimpse that we have...

The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded by the poems passing under the name of Homer.

Joseph Jacobs

Australian Historian

Born: Aug 29, 1854

Died: Jan 30, 1916

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First, Earth, Possessed, Poems, Shape, Glimpse, Name, Passing, Greeks, Afforded, Which, Inhabitants, Notions, Homer

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