Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... allows a much tighter construction , and coincidence is thematically important in the tragedy . Even rigorous naturalists sometimes allow implausible coincidences when the results are meaningful . " Aristotle's statement that ...
... allows a much tighter construction , and coincidence is thematically important in the tragedy . Even rigorous naturalists sometimes allow implausible coincidences when the results are meaningful . " Aristotle's statement that ...
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... allows Menoetius to have told Patroclus to advise Achilles . Any variation be- tween a formulaic and an expanded version falls into inattention . The epic regularly allows slightly contradictory doublets of a simple and an elaborated ...
... allows Menoetius to have told Patroclus to advise Achilles . Any variation be- tween a formulaic and an expanded version falls into inattention . The epic regularly allows slightly contradictory doublets of a simple and an elaborated ...
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... allow , its annihilation ; but Zeus clearly does not literally hate the entire race , since he will consider saving ... allows Poseidon to remove Aeneas from the line of Trojans he himself has particular reason to hate , the line of ...
... allow , its annihilation ; but Zeus clearly does not literally hate the entire race , since he will consider saving ... allows Poseidon to remove Aeneas from the line of Trojans he himself has particular reason to hate , the line of ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
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