Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... naturalize it later . The limits of appropriate naturalization for an authorial audience are often unclear , and naturalization requires generic and cultural sensitivity.45 For example : in the Odyssey , Odysseus does not reveal himself ...
... naturalize it later . The limits of appropriate naturalization for an authorial audience are often unclear , and naturalization requires generic and cultural sensitivity.45 For example : in the Odyssey , Odysseus does not reveal himself ...
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... naturalization . Either we naturalize by assuming that the initial report was a lie , or that it might have been true , and that Oedipus could have killed some other old man who physically resembled himself and who was at the same ...
... naturalization . Either we naturalize by assuming that the initial report was a lie , or that it might have been true , and that Oedipus could have killed some other old man who physically resembled himself and who was at the same ...
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... naturalize , they need to attribute to Odysseus motives that cohere with the character of Odysseus elsewhere and with Homeric characterization generally . In my judgment , an appropriate naturalization would give Odysseus a practical ...
... naturalize , they need to attribute to Odysseus motives that cohere with the character of Odysseus elsewhere and with Homeric characterization generally . In my judgment , an appropriate naturalization would give Odysseus a practical ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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