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From: James Butrica <jbutrica@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: Re: "happy childhood of humanity" in ancient epics?

While I was browsing through our Homer section in search of other things,
my eye fell upon Gladstone's "Juventus Mundi: The Gods and Men of the
Heroic Age" (publication date for our copy 1869); no doubt the idea is
older still.

James Lawrence Peter Butrica
Department of Classics
The Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland  A1C 5S7
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