Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... mother's help . It is a local motivation . Nonetheless , the episode is ex- tremely powerful . Motivations local in themselves may have cumulative thematic force . For example , it is a standard local motivation for a hero to have left ...
... mother's help . It is a local motivation . Nonetheless , the episode is ex- tremely powerful . Motivations local in themselves may have cumulative thematic force . For example , it is a standard local motivation for a hero to have left ...
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... mother has not mentioned Apollo in the audience's hearing . Most elaborately , she tells Achilles the fatal ... mother has told him from Zeus . His mother has told him nothing that would keep him away from battle now more than at any ...
... mother has not mentioned Apollo in the audience's hearing . Most elaborately , she tells Achilles the fatal ... mother has told him from Zeus . His mother has told him nothing that would keep him away from battle now more than at any ...
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... mother has said , and her mother agrees , commenting on the unusual courtesy of the request ( 554–57 ) . This is an apology for the formal agon , which Clytemnestra would hardly be expected to permit . After Electra's speech , as ...
... mother has said , and her mother agrees , commenting on the unusual courtesy of the request ( 554–57 ) . This is an apology for the formal agon , which Clytemnestra would hardly be expected to permit . After Electra's speech , as ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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