Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... critics had objected to it . So he cannot mean that it always goes unnoticed . Rather , the reader who is actually engaged with the narrative and responding properly to it does not notice it , although the critic - who may be the same ...
... critics had objected to it . So he cannot mean that it always goes unnoticed . Rather , the reader who is actually engaged with the narrative and responding properly to it does not notice it , although the critic - who may be the same ...
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... criticism , and specifically with what the later critical vocabulary calls лрóẞληuata , Sýτnμa , or άñoρńμaτa ... critics . The problem was an ideal medium for the agonistic life of the Greek intellectual , 293 By the late fifth ...
... criticism , and specifically with what the later critical vocabulary calls лрóẞληuata , Sýτnμa , or άñoρńμaτa ... critics . The problem was an ideal medium for the agonistic life of the Greek intellectual , 293 By the late fifth ...
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... criticism , however , was not of this traditional kind , but seems to have been praise and explication of Homer , including some devoted to problems of narra- tive detail . We cannot simply divide these critics into philologists , 294 ...
... criticism , however , was not of this traditional kind , but seems to have been praise and explication of Homer , including some devoted to problems of narra- tive detail . We cannot simply divide these critics into philologists , 294 ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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