Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... killing Patroclus . The prophecy gives the entirely false impression that the fight over Patroclus ' body will take ... kill Hector . From then , you will see , I plan a continual retreat from the ships , constant until the Achaeans ...
... killing Patroclus . The prophecy gives the entirely false impression that the fight over Patroclus ' body will take ... kill Hector . From then , you will see , I plan a continual retreat from the ships , constant until the Achaeans ...
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... killing the king or hiding in the temple in order to escape by night ( 1020-28 ) .179 Iphigenia rejects this last because ... kill his sister . 179 Solmsen 1931 , 53-58 , compares Euripides ' rationality in these passages to Antiphon's ...
... killing the king or hiding in the temple in order to escape by night ( 1020-28 ) .179 Iphigenia rejects this last because ... kill his sister . 179 Solmsen 1931 , 53-58 , compares Euripides ' rationality in these passages to Antiphon's ...
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... kill Orestes at the time he killed Agamemnon , 16–18 ) , does not simply kill Electra . He also , given the intense practicality of the play , does not make Aegisthus act out of anger ( as Sophocles ' Aegisthus seems to ) , but out of a ...
... kill Orestes at the time he killed Agamemnon , 16–18 ) , does not simply kill Electra . He also , given the intense practicality of the play , does not make Aegisthus act out of anger ( as Sophocles ' Aegisthus seems to ) , but out of a ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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