Homer's Cosmic Fabrication (Hardback)
Choice and Design in the Iliad
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pages: 254
ISBN: 9780195341072
Published: 31st December 2008
Casemate UK Academic
Pages: 254
ISBN: 9780195341072
Published: 31st December 2008
Casemate UK Academic
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A new attempt to get to the bottom of the organisation and construction of the Iliad, which proposes that the poem is structured in such a way as to make reading it profitable, as opposed to the standard conception of its being an oral experience. Heiden notes that Zeus provides a unifying plot driver, but that the division of the work into books also creates a structure to the work as it is read, which flags up major events, and delineates sub-plots.
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