Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... provide a simple rational basis for his choice that gives it such significance . Antisthenes ( fr . 52 Decleva ) and ... provides a local motivation for the intensity of Zeus ' pity for Hector - Hector's many offerings ( 22.169–72 ) ...
... provide a simple rational basis for his choice that gives it such significance . Antisthenes ( fr . 52 Decleva ) and ... provides a local motivation for the intensity of Zeus ' pity for Hector - Hector's many offerings ( 22.169–72 ) ...
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... provide local motivations . In epic , be- cause the constant involvement of the gods in mortal affairs is taken for ... provides a local motivation so that another , whose intervention is thematically important , can have something to ...
... provide local motivations . In epic , be- cause the constant involvement of the gods in mortal affairs is taken for ... provides a local motivation so that another , whose intervention is thematically important , can have something to ...
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... provides provides a plausible explanation of how Odysseus got this wine : It was a gift from Maron , the priest of Apollo , in gratitude for Odysseus ' sparing of his life and those of his wife and child in the sacking of the Cicones ...
... provides provides a plausible explanation of how Odysseus got this wine : It was a gift from Maron , the priest of Apollo , in gratitude for Odysseus ' sparing of his life and those of his wife and child in the sacking of the Cicones ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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