Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... gods against Zeus is evidently al- ready thinking about the divine quarrels to come.82 Some local motivations are so common that they function almost as apologies : if the gods , or a god , needs to be away , he is visiting the ...
... gods against Zeus is evidently al- ready thinking about the divine quarrels to come.82 Some local motivations are so common that they function almost as apologies : if the gods , or a god , needs to be away , he is visiting the ...
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... god's feeling for a mortal not his own child , because the audience shares it . Yet the poet has him mention Hector's sacrifices , perhaps in order to sway the other gods . 108 109 More broadly , Homer thematizes the gods ' motives ...
... god's feeling for a mortal not his own child , because the audience shares it . Yet the poet has him mention Hector's sacrifices , perhaps in order to sway the other gods . 108 109 More broadly , Homer thematizes the gods ' motives ...
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... gods will save misplaced , but a god will save Aeneas whom he would never have imagined as a Trojan's helper , for Aeneas is part of a wide - reaching plan of which mortals have no suspicion . The rescue is conducted as a spectacle of ...
... gods will save misplaced , but a god will save Aeneas whom he would never have imagined as a Trojan's helper , for Aeneas is part of a wide - reaching plan of which mortals have no suspicion . The rescue is conducted as a spectacle of ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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