Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... told her to remarry when Telemachus was bearded . To be sure , no such instruction has been mentioned before , and Penelope can be deceitful . The conventions , though , encourage us to accept the speech and not attempt to naturalize it ...
... told her to remarry when Telemachus was bearded . To be sure , no such instruction has been mentioned before , and Penelope can be deceitful . The conventions , though , encourage us to accept the speech and not attempt to naturalize it ...
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... told , and avoids giving away information that Odysseus ' narrative will provide . As a god , of course , he should ... told him from Zeus . His mother has told him nothing that would keep him away from battle now more than at any other ...
... told , and avoids giving away information that Odysseus ' narrative will provide . As a god , of course , he should ... told him from Zeus . His mother has told him nothing that would keep him away from battle now more than at any other ...
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... told her to do when he left for Troy ( since she does say he told her to marry when Telemachus grew up ) , or that she expects that none of the suitors will be able to bend the bow - as indeed none of them can - and that the contest is ...
... told her to do when he left for Troy ( since she does say he told her to marry when Telemachus grew up ) , or that she expects that none of the suitors will be able to bend the bow - as indeed none of them can - and that the contest is ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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