Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... Zeus awakes from his sleep and has Hera summon Iris and Apollo . He then sends Iris to order Poseidon off the battlefield ( 158–67 ) . Since Poseidon needs to be persuaded to go , considerable time elapses , but only when Poseidon ...
... Zeus awakes from his sleep and has Hera summon Iris and Apollo . He then sends Iris to order Poseidon off the battlefield ( 158–67 ) . Since Poseidon needs to be persuaded to go , considerable time elapses , but only when Poseidon ...
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... Zeus himself sometimes feels strong attachment to a mortal , however as he does to his son Sarpedon . Zeus has predicted his death , and Hector's , already at 15.66-68 , and the poet could probably have counted on the pathos of ...
... Zeus himself sometimes feels strong attachment to a mortal , however as he does to his son Sarpedon . Zeus has predicted his death , and Hector's , already at 15.66-68 , and the poet could probably have counted on the pathos of ...
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Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek Tragedy Ruth Scodel. claim that Zeus hates the race of Priam . In some sense this may be true , in that Zeus has decreed , or will at any rate allow , its annihilation ; but ...
Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek Tragedy Ruth Scodel. claim that Zeus hates the race of Priam . In some sense this may be true , in that Zeus has decreed , or will at any rate allow , its annihilation ; but ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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