Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... Troy . In the Iliad , their ability to find Troy depends on Calchas ' prophetic abil- ity ( 1.71 ) . The narrator , then , concentrating on the fact that Odysseus is asleep when the ship reaches Ithaca , and so unable to provide ...
... Troy . In the Iliad , their ability to find Troy depends on Calchas ' prophetic abil- ity ( 1.71 ) . The narrator , then , concentrating on the fact that Odysseus is asleep when the ship reaches Ithaca , and so unable to provide ...
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... Troy willingly , and adds the detail that Helenus claimed Troy was fated to fall this very summer ( thus echoing 196-200 , so that the inference turns out to have been based on more evidence than appeared at the time ) . Finally ...
... Troy willingly , and adds the detail that Helenus claimed Troy was fated to fall this very summer ( thus echoing 196-200 , so that the inference turns out to have been based on more evidence than appeared at the time ) . Finally ...
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... Troy ( which are , after all , doomed to destruction ) . On the other hand , Homer problematizes not Poseidon's hostility to Troy , but Apollo's loyalty to it ( 21.441-60 ; see above , 56 ) . In any case , the ex- istence of traditions ...
... Troy ( which are , after all , doomed to destruction ) . On the other hand , Homer problematizes not Poseidon's hostility to Troy , but Apollo's loyalty to it ( 21.441-60 ; see above , 56 ) . In any case , the ex- istence of traditions ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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