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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Iliad"”.
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Iliad Twenty-four : a thematic study
… Homeric Studies, in any discussion around the Iliad and the Odyssey, the figures of two scholars, Milman Parry and A.B. Lord . are, at least in the English-speaking world, dominant. It has been t heir findings which have recently opened up new avenues in our appreciation of these two fine …
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Iliad Twenty-four : a thematic study
… Homeric Studies, in any discussion around the Iliad and the Odyssey, the figures of two scholars, Milman Parry and A.B. Lord . are, at least in the English-speaking world, dominant. It has been t heir findings which have recently opened up new avenues in our appreciation of these two fine …
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Models of Reception in the Divine Audience of the Iliad
The Iliad in certain key passages construes the Olympian gods as an internal epic audience offering and exploring multiple configurations of audience response to the poem. Chapter 1 explores the special features of the divine audience in general terms and considers previous scholarship. Chapter 2 …
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Te Sequor: A Study of Pope's Observations on The Iliad of Homer
… has been written on Pope's translation of the Iliad, little has been written directly on his commentary, which comprise more than half of Pope's work. This study seeks to correct this neglect and argues that Pope's commentary is a vital part of his Iliad. I examine Pope's place among English …
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Hearts, Bellies, and the Hunger of Heroes: Intertraditional Agonistic Discourse between the Iliad and Odyssey
Within this thesis I argue that the Iliad and Odyssey, as representatives of sub-genres within the larger archaic Greek epic tradition, engage in a shared agonistic discourse with one another in order to demonstrate that the hero of each epic is superior to that of its competitor. In order to trace …
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Morality in War: A Comparison Between Bhīma from the Mahābhārata and Achilles from the Iliad
… of morality in war in the Mahābhārata and the Iliad by a comparison of the main warriors, Bhīma and Achilles, in their respective Indo-European epics. Specifically, this thesis shows how outside influences (mortal or immortal) placed upon each warrior ultimately determine the warriors' actions, …
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Managing public perceptions : reading success in Agamemnon's diapeira
The success of Agamemnon’s test (diapeira) in Iliad 2 is still a matter of debate among Homeric scholars. This report not only argues that Agamemnon’s test was successful, but also will examine how skillfully Agamemnon manipulates his subordinates. Unlike his brash and shameless attempt to …
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Viewing Helen of Sparta and Draupadi of Pancala: A Comparative Approach
… representations of Helen of Sparta in the Iliad and in the Odyssey along with Krishnā- Draupadī of Pāñcāla in the Mahābhārata. The Trojan War in the Iliad and the devastating war in the Mahābhārata reveal a similar myth that appears in the Cypria of the Epic Cycle and the first book of the …
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Voices from the outside: Homeric exiles in twentieth-century French writing
… relationship with Homer and his epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. It is an encounter that repositions the outsider, shifting our gaze from the pitiable, shunned ‘étranger’ to the creative, empowered, and vocal other. The position of the exile is recast as a Homeric exile of possibility. I …
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The Structure of the Homeric Dwelling Scene: a Presentation of Justice in Homer
… Introducing the thesis with a reading of the Iliad, I offer an innovative explanation of how and why Homer uses what I call his ‘dwelling structure’ to dramatize the varied ideas of human and divine justice of his time. After situating the argument within ancient and modern Homeric scholarship …
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“Closer to the Objective”: Following Helen from Troy to Chicago
… storytellers are constantly looking back at the Iliad, which serves as an Ur text in terms of how the war narrative--and in particular, the American war narrative--continues to be told today. Those American-centric war narratives still place the emphasis on male experiences in war, elevating a …
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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' Jupiter and Thetis
… tradition, choosing his subject from Homer’s Iliad. The scene he chose to depict, however, was not one commonly represented and was inspired by an illustration by John Flaxman. His truly innovative achievement was in style, where he synthesized aspects of the linear treatment of Greek vase …
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Telling presences: narrating divine epiphany in Homer and beyond.
… I consider a succession of moments in the Iliad and the Odyssey, first to destabilise the notion of divine epiphany as a self-evident category or paradigm, second to explore the vital importance of three questions: what constitutes divine presence and absence, how they are manifested, and …
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Experiencing Color in the Indo-European World: A Literary and Linguistic Approach
… by two authors of epic from antiquity—Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey (Greek) and Vergil’s Aeneid (Latin). Investigation of the former includes discussion of ancient aesthetics, perception, and cognition, and argues for a multisensory, emotional, and kinetic reading of Homer’s color terms. The latter …
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Oceans of Literature - The Little Mermaid
… by the mythos established in books like The Iliad, sirens and mermaids were a part of European culture for centuries. The mermaid as chimera monster that represented the duality of danger and seduction was subverted in 1837, when Hans Christian Andersen wrote the seminal fairy tale “The …
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Pouring out tears: Andromache in Homer and Euripides
… an in-depth analysis of Andromache in the Iliad, Euripides’ Andromache and Euripides’ Trojan Women. Using theories of character derived from the narratological study of modern fiction, it strives to draw attention to the role of Andromache’s character in each work and the methods of …
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Minoan Funerary Practices During the Bronze Age: With a Study on the Introduction of Cremation to Crete
… and appearance on Crete from the East. The Iliad is also consulted on the basis of plausibility for the funeral of Patroklos and the cremated remains that are found within the Mediterranean context during the Bronze Age.
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Homer and the Art of Performative Technical Communication
… of archaic technical communication in The Iliad and Odyssey. Textual evidence from the Homeric verses suggests that technical communication was integrated in the heroic and epic narratives as catalogic lists and procedural language because this technical information was used in primary oral …
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A catalogue of shapes: a composite object portrait of an oral-formulaic Homer
… disparate art-forms - Homeric poetry (the Iliad and the Odyssey) and sculptural assemblage. The synthesis of form and content achieved by the re-organization, manipulation, and transformation of pre-existing components in the theory of an oral-formulaic Homer is explored by means of a …
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