Homer's divine audience the Iliad's reception on Mount Olympus
The gods of the Iliad have long troubled readers, with many features of their presentation defying satisfactory explanation. This volume presents a new 'metaperformative' approach to the poem's scenes of divine viewing, arguing that the poet uses the gods to model and thereby manipula...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press
2019
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| Edición: | First edition published in 2019 |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991004408689708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: ‘With What Eyes…?’
- 1 Zeus, the Poet, and Vision
- 2 The Duel and the Daïs: Iliadic Warfare as Spectacle
- 3 ‘Let Us Cease’: Early Reflections on the Spectacle’s End
- 4 ‘Many Contests of the Trojans and Achaeans’: The Iliad’s Battle Books
- 5 ‘A Man Having Died’: Watching Achilles and Hector
- - Conclusion: The Iliad and the Odyssey
- Appendix Instances of Divine Viewing in the Iliad
