Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... interpretation as the poem continues . Cun- ningly , the narrator uses this new interpretation of the sign to give Penelope the same information the audience has , while motivating her in- ability to believe it ( she has often been ...
... interpretation as the poem continues . Cun- ningly , the narrator uses this new interpretation of the sign to give Penelope the same information the audience has , while motivating her in- ability to believe it ( she has often been ...
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... interpreting oracles than the characters are ) . The oracle , the mention of Pittheus , and the promise to Medea of safe ... interpretation is quite different from mine , the accidental entry is thematized ) . that of Achilles ) , and so ...
... interpreting oracles than the characters are ) . The oracle , the mention of Pittheus , and the promise to Medea of safe ... interpretation is quite different from mine , the accidental entry is thematized ) . that of Achilles ) , and so ...
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... Interpretation of Narrative . Chicago and London : Uni- versity of Chicago Press . Porter , J. " Hermeneutic Lines and circles : Aristarchus and Crates on the Exegesis of Homer . " inHomer's Ancient Readers : the Hermeneutics of Greek ...
... Interpretation of Narrative . Chicago and London : Uni- versity of Chicago Press . Porter , J. " Hermeneutic Lines and circles : Aristarchus and Crates on the Exegesis of Homer . " inHomer's Ancient Readers : the Hermeneutics of Greek ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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