Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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Page 55
... Hector's , already at 15.66-68 , and the poet could probably have counted on the pathos of Sarpedon's death to ... Hector . He provides a local motivation for the intensity of Zeus ' pity for Hector - Hector's many offerings ( 22.169–72 ) ...
... Hector's , already at 15.66-68 , and the poet could probably have counted on the pathos of Sarpedon's death to ... Hector . He provides a local motivation for the intensity of Zeus ' pity for Hector - Hector's many offerings ( 22.169–72 ) ...
Page 80
... Hector will not leave off war before he rouses the swift - footed son of Peleus by the ships , on the day when they fight by the sterns of the ships , when they are squeezed together most terribly , over dead Patroclus . For thus it is ...
... Hector will not leave off war before he rouses the swift - footed son of Peleus by the ships , on the day when they fight by the sterns of the ships , when they are squeezed together most terribly , over dead Patroclus . For thus it is ...
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... Hector and Achilles involves some tension among the different strands of narrative . That is , when the narrative concentrates on Hector , his death implies the fall of Troy , and that fall is consistently treated as catastrophic . Not ...
... Hector and Achilles involves some tension among the different strands of narrative . That is , when the narrative concentrates on Hector , his death implies the fall of Troy , and that fall is consistently treated as catastrophic . Not ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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