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Homer's cosmic fabrication : choice and design in the Iliad / Bruce Heiden.
LIBRA PA4037 .H425 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heiden, Bruce A.
- Series:
- American classical studies ; no. 52.
- American classical studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homer. Iliad.
- Homer.
- Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, Greek.
- Achilles (Mythological character)--In literature.
- Achilles.
- Trojan War--Literature and the war.
- Trojan War.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 254 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Abbreviations Frequently Used in the Figures xiii
- Introduction: Reading, Choice, and Design 3
- Part I Dramatic Legibility and Poetic Design
- 1 Persons, Problems, and Choices: The Progression of Events in the Iliad 23
- 2 Event Trajectories in the "Books" of the Iliad 37
- 3 Orientation by Design 67
- 4 Paths of Thought-Iliad Cycle I 85
- Part II Reading Thematic Trajectories
- 5 Replacements and Representatives: The Quarrel (Cycle I, Column A) and the Embassy (Cycle II, Column A) 123
- 6 Zeus's Changing Plans: Cycles I and II, Column Z (Books 8 and 15) 161
- 7 Homeric Sublimity: Iliad Book 24 187
- Conclusion: The Fabricated Cosmos and the Poetry of the Future 211.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-241) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780195341072
- 0195341074
- OCLC:
- 209813670
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