Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... leave ( 15.15.67-74 ) , im- plying that Telemachus has not stayed as long as his host might have wished . The ... leaves Ithaca in the morning , sometime after sunrise , and does not arrive in Sparta until sometime before dawn on the ...
... leave ( 15.15.67-74 ) , im- plying that Telemachus has not stayed as long as his host might have wished . The ... leaves Ithaca in the morning , sometime after sunrise , and does not arrive in Sparta until sometime before dawn on the ...
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... leave Circe's island ( 10.471–74 ) , and in that case their greater willingness to leave has a plausible motivation , since only Odysseus is sleeping with the goddess and is therefore most directly influenced by her . 103 Cf. Sternberg ...
... leave Circe's island ( 10.471–74 ) , and in that case their greater willingness to leave has a plausible motivation , since only Odysseus is sleeping with the goddess and is therefore most directly influenced by her . 103 Cf. Sternberg ...
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... leave off war before he rouses the swift - footed son of Peleus by the ships , on the day when they fight by the sterns of the ships , when they are squeezed together most terribly , over dead Patroclus . For thus it is fated . This ...
... leave off war before he rouses the swift - footed son of Peleus by the ships , on the day when they fight by the sterns of the ships , when they are squeezed together most terribly , over dead Patroclus . For thus it is fated . This ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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