Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... received the wine in thanks for his piety , and it will save him from the impious giant . Nobody , however , would ... receive gifts which would be reciprocated later , when the visit was returned . So Odysseus ' bringing of the wine ...
... received the wine in thanks for his piety , and it will save him from the impious giant . Nobody , however , would ... receive gifts which would be reciprocated later , when the visit was returned . So Odysseus ' bringing of the wine ...
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... receive her son on his return home to his father's house ( II . 18.440-41 ) , although she appears to have returned to live with her father in the sea . But where else could she receive him ? The pathos of her complaint adds affective ...
... receive her son on his return home to his father's house ( II . 18.440-41 ) , although she appears to have returned to live with her father in the sea . But where else could she receive him ? The pathos of her complaint adds affective ...
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... receive gifts . So Odysseus ' bringing of the wine receives a local motivation . At lines 213-15 Odysseus explains that he took some of the special , potent wine Maron had given him for a reason : αὐτίκα γάρ μοι οίσατο θυμός αγήνωρ ...
... receive gifts . So Odysseus ' bringing of the wine receives a local motivation . At lines 213-15 Odysseus explains that he took some of the special , potent wine Maron had given him for a reason : αὐτίκα γάρ μοι οίσατο θυμός αγήνωρ ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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