Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... Odysseus and his men could easily have been caught in the cave by accident . The poet chose to make Odysseus bring disaster through his own curiosity and greed , as he himself admits . Odysseus ' behavior is foolish elsewhere in this ...
... Odysseus and his men could easily have been caught in the cave by accident . The poet chose to make Odysseus bring disaster through his own curiosity and greed , as he himself admits . Odysseus ' behavior is foolish elsewhere in this ...
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... Odysseus assumes from the start that Philoctetes would recognize him instantly , and for this reason requires Neoptolemus . Neoptolemus ' presence greatly alleviates the problem of why Odysseus undertook the job , and the speech of the ...
... Odysseus assumes from the start that Philoctetes would recognize him instantly , and for this reason requires Neoptolemus . Neoptolemus ' presence greatly alleviates the problem of why Odysseus undertook the job , and the speech of the ...
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... Odysseus notoriously evades Queen Arete's direct question about his identity in Odyssey 7 , and does not provide his name until the beginning of 9 ... Odysseus ' action . Certainly Odysseus ' motives are 186 Credible Impossibilities.
... Odysseus notoriously evades Queen Arete's direct question about his identity in Odyssey 7 , and does not provide his name until the beginning of 9 ... Odysseus ' action . Certainly Odysseus ' motives are 186 Credible Impossibilities.
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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