Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... suggest that the stories function less at the mimetic level and more thematically than most Homeric narrative : they are fables . In both tales , Odysseus is in a situation not unlike the one in which he will find himself in Ithaca ...
... suggest that the stories function less at the mimetic level and more thematically than most Homeric narrative : they are fables . In both tales , Odysseus is in a situation not unlike the one in which he will find himself in Ithaca ...
Page 95
... suggest to her that she send Hyllus out for word of his father ( 49-60 ) . Her inability to think of this fairly ... suggestion ( 52-53 ) as a slave to a free woman , and Deianira's praise of it as a speech befit- ting a free person ...
... suggest to her that she send Hyllus out for word of his father ( 49-60 ) . Her inability to think of this fairly ... suggestion ( 52-53 ) as a slave to a free woman , and Deianira's praise of it as a speech befit- ting a free person ...
Page 150
... suggests an alternate end to the Trojan War , and so undermines the final- ity of the story's dominant direction ... suggest that Odysseus will soon return , she apparently gives in to despair and institutes the contest of the bow ...
... suggests an alternate end to the Trojan War , and so undermines the final- ity of the story's dominant direction ... suggest that Odysseus will soon return , she apparently gives in to despair and institutes the contest of the bow ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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