Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... Apollo causes Diomedes to drop his whip , the motivation is local ; although Apollo has warned Diomedes on the battlefield , he has no generalized hostility towards him . Apollo raised Eumelus ' horses ( 2.766–67 ) , so his help for ...
... Apollo causes Diomedes to drop his whip , the motivation is local ; although Apollo has warned Diomedes on the battlefield , he has no generalized hostility towards him . Apollo raised Eumelus ' horses ( 2.766–67 ) , so his help for ...
Page 124
... [ Apollo ] will give him his own child , and will say that he is Xuthus ' son , so that he may go to his mother's house and become known to Creusa , and the sexual relations of Apollo may be secret , while his child has what is ...
... [ Apollo ] will give him his own child , and will say that he is Xuthus ' son , so that he may go to his mother's house and become known to Creusa , and the sexual relations of Apollo may be secret , while his child has what is ...
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... Apollo's loyalty to it ( 21.441-60 ; see above , 56 ) . In any case , the ex- istence of traditions in which ... Apollo , it is argued , could not intervene at this point , since Poseidon has already threatened to fight himself if Apollo ...
... Apollo's loyalty to it ( 21.441-60 ; see above , 56 ) . In any case , the ex- istence of traditions in which ... Apollo , it is argued , could not intervene at this point , since Poseidon has already threatened to fight himself if Apollo ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
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