Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... plausibility to convention ; cf. Pavel 1986 , esp . 3-6 , 116–177 . Yet even Newsom sounds condescending in his discussion of Samuel Richardson's defense of the plausibility of Clarissa , 85-88 . " 1 So in Fenton 1990 , 32 , Salman ...
... plausibility to convention ; cf. Pavel 1986 , esp . 3-6 , 116–177 . Yet even Newsom sounds condescending in his discussion of Samuel Richardson's defense of the plausibility of Clarissa , 85-88 . " 1 So in Fenton 1990 , 32 , Salman ...
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... plausibility , since the local motivation that avoids the non - fated is itself fully motivated . If the heralds had not interrupted the duel of Ajax and Hector ( Il . 7.273-82 ) , the heroes , we are told , would have continued by ...
... plausibility , since the local motivation that avoids the non - fated is itself fully motivated . If the heralds had not interrupted the duel of Ajax and Hector ( Il . 7.273-82 ) , the heroes , we are told , would have continued by ...
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... plausibility , he could surely have done so . He did not need to include a conversation that sharply differen- tiates the attitude of Poseidon from that of Hera and Athena , who would never save a Trojan . He did not have to have Aeneas ...
... plausibility , he could surely have done so . He did not need to include a conversation that sharply differen- tiates the attitude of Poseidon from that of Hera and Athena , who would never save a Trojan . He did not have to have Aeneas ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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