Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... play named for her by explaining that she learned the doctrines she enunciates from her mother , Chiron's daughter ( fr . 484 N2 ) ; Euripides evidently enjoys giving a mythological character , and a woman at that , clever things to say ...
... play named for her by explaining that she learned the doctrines she enunciates from her mother , Chiron's daughter ( fr . 484 N2 ) ; Euripides evidently enjoys giving a mythological character , and a woman at that , clever things to say ...
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... play , but also serve some of the predictive function of the Homeric proem . Of these , however , only Alcestis is without “ insuffi- ciency " . Polydorus provides full information over the first part of the play , by stating very ...
... play , but also serve some of the predictive function of the Homeric proem . Of these , however , only Alcestis is without “ insuffi- ciency " . Polydorus provides full information over the first part of the play , by stating very ...
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... play predicted for itself has been denied , all traditions about the fate of Oedipus are available as possible endings , including those of the epic in which he died in Thebes and was never exiled . The dramatic action of the play has ...
... play predicted for itself has been denied , all traditions about the fate of Oedipus are available as possible endings , including those of the epic in which he died in Thebes and was never exiled . The dramatic action of the play has ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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