Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... poem the acceptance of death may seem a strange response from the man who has heard Achilles ' great complaint at 11.487-91 , where the greatest of heroes would rather be the hired hand of a poor man than be king of the dead ( but of ...
... poem the acceptance of death may seem a strange response from the man who has heard Achilles ' great complaint at 11.487-91 , where the greatest of heroes would rather be the hired hand of a poor man than be king of the dead ( but of ...
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... poem , but the prediction of the proem is not fulfilled exactly . The most important events of the poem - the deaths of Patroclus and Hector - are not mentioned in the proem . " The Odyssey proem also has odd reticences : ἄνδρα μοι ...
... poem , but the prediction of the proem is not fulfilled exactly . The most important events of the poem - the deaths of Patroclus and Hector - are not mentioned in the proem . " The Odyssey proem also has odd reticences : ἄνδρα μοι ...
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... poem are the result of its origins . It is perhaps not impossible that Poseidon was in other traditions a pro - Trojan god , as he is in Euripides ' Trojan Women , and that this incident derives from such a tradition . Cer- tainly ...
... poem are the result of its origins . It is perhaps not impossible that Poseidon was in other traditions a pro - Trojan god , as he is in Euripides ' Trojan Women , and that this incident derives from such a tradition . Cer- tainly ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
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