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The gaze of Homer : light and vision in the Iliad / Soteroula Constantinidou.
Van Pelt Library PA4037.C6678 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Constantinidou, Soteroula, author.
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Homer. Iliad.
- Homer.
- Vision in literature.
- Light and darkness in literature.
- Time perception in literature.
- Greek language--Figures of speech.
- Greek language.
- Vision--Social aspects--Greece--History--To 1500.
- Vision.
- Iliad (Homer).
- Social aspects.
- History.
- Greece.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 180 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Institut du Livre - Kardamitsa, 2019.
- Language Note:
- In English with quotations of Greek text.
- Summary:
- "The present study is an overall investigation of the aspects and functions of light as well as of visual perceptions and the dependence of certain narratives upon notions of light and brightness, of the symbolism and the experience of light in the Homeric world and especially in the Iliad."--P. 2.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-160) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9789603544999
- 960354499X
- OCLC:
- 1129394832
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