Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... hero's name , it intro- duces only Odysseus ' travels , roughly a third of the poem . And the proem places far more emphasis on the folly of Odysseus ' companions than the poem as a whole will , carefully putting the best possible inter ...
... hero's name , it intro- duces only Odysseus ' travels , roughly a third of the poem . And the proem places far more emphasis on the folly of Odysseus ' companions than the poem as a whole will , carefully putting the best possible inter ...
Page 138
... hero and one - eyed giant story was al- ready firmly connected with Odysseus or with Cyclopes . Clearly , though , the audience is to understand from the mention of the wine itself approximately what it is for , because everyone knows ...
... hero and one - eyed giant story was al- ready firmly connected with Odysseus or with Cyclopes . Clearly , though , the audience is to understand from the mention of the wine itself approximately what it is for , because everyone knows ...
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... hero acted in a certain way . In most of these there is no real problem of plausibility , since the local motivation that avoids the non - fated is itself fully motivated . If the heralds had not interrupted the duel of Ajax and Hector ...
... hero acted in a certain way . In most of these there is no real problem of plausibility , since the local motivation that avoids the non - fated is itself fully motivated . If the heralds had not interrupted the duel of Ajax and Hector ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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