Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... fate ” , particularly in his use of counterfac- tual conditions to describe alternate paths for the story . These conditions describe what would have happened ( often explicitly contrary - to - fate ) , had a god not intervened or a ...
... fate ” , particularly in his use of counterfac- tual conditions to describe alternate paths for the story . These conditions describe what would have happened ( often explicitly contrary - to - fate ) , had a god not intervened or a ...
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... fate may have its way , especially not to save men who are in danger in battle.245 Either gods , by following their natural inclinations , help fate fulfill itself , or Zeus restrains himself from the temptation to interfere with fate ...
... fate may have its way , especially not to save men who are in danger in battle.245 Either gods , by following their natural inclinations , help fate fulfill itself , or Zeus restrains himself from the temptation to interfere with fate ...
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... Fate In Aeschylus ' Seven against Thebes , where Eteocles in full self- consciousness succumbs to a malevolent fate , a curse , the method is not unlike Homer's treatment of Penelope . Such passages have an inherent problem in ...
... Fate In Aeschylus ' Seven against Thebes , where Eteocles in full self- consciousness succumbs to a malevolent fate , a curse , the method is not unlike Homer's treatment of Penelope . Such passages have an inherent problem in ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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