Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... seem to have more intelligence or self - control than Odysseus . 102 If Odysseus were an invented character , just beginning his adven- tures , and a young man , this behavior would be entirely credible . Indeed , Odysseus seems to ...
... seem to have more intelligence or self - control than Odysseus . 102 If Odysseus were an invented character , just beginning his adven- tures , and a young man , this behavior would be entirely credible . Indeed , Odysseus seems to ...
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... seems to be committing fratricide in order to fulfill their expec- tations . It is yet another form of the partial replacement of conventional , internal motivations with fate and foreknowledge in the service of a pow- erful affective ...
... seems to be committing fratricide in order to fulfill their expec- tations . It is yet another form of the partial replacement of conventional , internal motivations with fate and foreknowledge in the service of a pow- erful affective ...
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... seems to have been an adult by 426.298 Some of this may have been alle- gorical and aimed at the traditional problems of the portrayal of the gods , and some was linguistic or biographical ; but even such criticism contrib- uted methods ...
... seems to have been an adult by 426.298 Some of this may have been alle- gorical and aimed at the traditional problems of the portrayal of the gods , and some was linguistic or biographical ; but even such criticism contrib- uted methods ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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