Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... tradition . The retention of Helen would be motivated if the Trojans were depicted as wicked and hybristic , since in Greek thought insane recklessness is a likely accompaniment of evil actions . Since he instead humanizes the Trojans ...
... tradition . The retention of Helen would be motivated if the Trojans were depicted as wicked and hybristic , since in Greek thought insane recklessness is a likely accompaniment of evil actions . Since he instead humanizes the Trojans ...
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... tradition . Homeric narrative relies on local motivation to an extraordinary extent . Characters are constantly attempting to persuade each other , and every persuasive argument seems to demand grounding in a narrative by way of analogy ...
... tradition . Homeric narrative relies on local motivation to an extraordinary extent . Characters are constantly attempting to persuade each other , and every persuasive argument seems to demand grounding in a narrative by way of analogy ...
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... Tradition and Dramatic Form in the Persians of Aeschylus . Cincinnati Classical Studies n.s 4. Leiden : Brill . 1987. Euripides and the Tragic Tradition . Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press . 1989. " Neophron and Euripides ...
... Tradition and Dramatic Form in the Persians of Aeschylus . Cincinnati Classical Studies n.s 4. Leiden : Brill . 1987. Euripides and the Tragic Tradition . Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press . 1989. " Neophron and Euripides ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
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