Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... means " arbitrarily " , acting by his own authority rather than in his own person . 141 Yet there is a certain doubt ... mean " in person . " Helen and Menelaus ostensibly speak only to praise the greatness 74 Credible Impossibilities.
... means " arbitrarily " , acting by his own authority rather than in his own person . 141 Yet there is a certain doubt ... mean " in person . " Helen and Menelaus ostensibly speak only to praise the greatness 74 Credible Impossibilities.
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... mean that he came to Thebes because the oracle guided him there , whether by forbidding him to return to Thebes , or ... means only that the events took place under Apollo's overall direction . It is surely easiest to believe that ...
... mean that he came to Thebes because the oracle guided him there , whether by forbidding him to return to Thebes , or ... means only that the events took place under Apollo's overall direction . It is surely easiest to believe that ...
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... means anything but " and now I have left [ his bed ] " ; it would be clear from the context that she does not mean that it was her decision . nounces that she will meet Xerxes and give him new 120 Credible Impossibilities False ...
... means anything but " and now I have left [ his bed ] " ; it would be clear from the context that she does not mean that it was her decision . nounces that she will meet Xerxes and give him new 120 Credible Impossibilities False ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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