Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... concern for its mimetic logic in the context.49 Todorov has argued in a famous essay on the Odyssey that we are ... concerns of Greek critics , as in the discussions of Achilles in Plato's Hippias Minor . Once Hippias defines the ...
... concern for its mimetic logic in the context.49 Todorov has argued in a famous essay on the Odyssey that we are ... concerns of Greek critics , as in the discussions of Achilles in Plato's Hippias Minor . Once Hippias defines the ...
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... concerned to motivate what his characters know or do not know . In IT , Iphigenia's failure to react to Pylades ' name ... concern that one of the slaves at Aegisthus ' sacrifice might recognize him ( 630-31 ) . The Old Man reassures him ...
... concerned to motivate what his characters know or do not know . In IT , Iphigenia's failure to react to Pylades ' name ... concern that one of the slaves at Aegisthus ' sacrifice might recognize him ( 630-31 ) . The Old Man reassures him ...
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... concern of the epic poets or of the tragedians . Yet it clearly was a concern , even in trivial details , and among the tragedians , it was a field for emulation . Sophistic influence made Sophocles and Euripides fussier about ...
... concern of the epic poets or of the tragedians . Yet it clearly was a concern , even in trivial details , and among the tragedians , it was a field for emulation . Sophistic influence made Sophocles and Euripides fussier about ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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