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Published: 07 July 2020
..., and particularly Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. By aligning Achilles with form and Odysseus with event, Diano links event to embodied and situated subjective experience that simultaneously finds its expression in a form that objectifies that experience. Form and event do not exist...
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Published: 18 July 2024
...The Dark Side of Statius’ Achilleid: Epic Distorted. Julene Abad Del Vecchio, Oxford University Press. © Julene Abad Del Vecchio 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198895206.003.0003 The chapter continues to analyse Achilles’ emergent heroism in the Achilleid...
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Published: 04 July 2024
... to Achilles to give him the news of Patroclus’s death. Thetis and the Nereids lament Patroclus, anticipating Achilles’s fate. Hector and Polydamas argue about the Trojan strategy. On the Achaean side, Achilles offers funerary rites. The second half of book 18 presents Hephaestus’s work on Achilles’s armor...
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Published: 04 July 2024
...Zoe Stamatopoulou, Book 21 In: The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Iliad. Edited by: Jonathan L. Ready, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198869870.003.0022 Book 21 continues the battle narrative of Achilles’s...
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Published: 04 July 2024
...Alex Purves, Book 22 In: The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Iliad. Edited by: Jonathan L. Ready, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198869870.003.0023 Book 22 recounts the death of Hector at the hands of Achilles...
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Published: 21 September 2017
...Demodocus’ song of the quarrel of Odysseus and Achilles anticipates the quarrel between Odysseus and Euryalus at the Phaeacian games, and looks forward to Odysseus’ dealings with the suitors in Ithaca. It is the first of three songs which meditate on the relative merits of μῆτις (stratagem) and βίη...
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Published: 05 May 2010
.... Juxtaposition of this catalogue with other catalogues of Priam’s dead and surviving sons helps to define the extent of his present loss. The second example (Iliad 9.120–57) involves the ransom offered by Agamemnon to Achilles in his attempt to placate that hero. Agamemnon ingeniously...
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Published: 26 January 2006
...This chapter first sets the critical and aesthetic context for Pope's engagement with Homer and then moves on to his earliest Homeric translation ‘The Episode of Sarpedon’ before confronting his management of the main fable of the Iliad involving the anger of Achilles. It is argued...
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Published: 21 December 2017
...Chapter 3 recaps the centrality of paternity as thematic and metatextual link between Homer and Ovid. It considers the didactic or paradigmatic connotations of paternal guidance and then turns to the Embassy to Achilles (Book 9 of the Iliad), in which the power of a father to guide...
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Published: 20 February 2024
... and the ladies and courtiers to challenge Alain’s intentions. His character, the Belle Dame, was then accused of the murder of her lover and brought to trial before the allegorical court of Love in a cycle of litigious poems, authored by Baudet Herenc, Achilles Caulier and others. Other imitation poems position...
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Published: 07 April 2015
... of Achilles Hellenistic epigram the Elder Philostratus’ Imagines The Greek term ecphrasis (ἔκφρασις) is attested from around the first century AD onward. Etymologically, the word refers to an act of “speaking out” (ek-phrazein), above all within...
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Published: 02 September 2009
...This article considers the role of emotion, memory, and trauma in literature. It analyzes the lead characters in Salman Rushdie's novel Fury and Homer's Iliad and suggests that the traumatic childhood experiences of Professor Malik Solanka and Achilles...
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Published: 28 March 2019
.... They are also crucial in order to understand the unusual language in which the poems were composed. Homeric Greek was developed in order to sing the deeds of gods and men to the rhythm of the hexameter. Achilles formulae hexameter Homeric Question Lord Albert metre Parry Milman performance repetition...
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Published: 28 March 2019
...2019 ‘The wrath of Achilles’ outlines the story of the Iliad. Right at the start, the reader is promised a grand poem about a very specific issue: the wrath of Achilles, which brought countless agonies upon the Achaeans. We are told the cause of this wrath—an apparently petty...
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Published: 10 June 2003
... that globalization and the World Trade Organization (WTO) may prove to be the Achilles' heel of GEOs and the agricultural-biotechnology industry. Considerable tension over trade in general—and agricultural trade in particular—has emerged as a result of the United States having forced the European Union's hand...
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Published: 01 December 2016
... polis Lefkandi Mycenae ans Bronze Age Homer Greek(s) Troy Achilles Iliad At his weekly seminar, Jean-Pierre Vernant used to begin his answer to a friend’s or a colleague’s question with these words: ‘écoute voir’, which could be translated as: ‘listen to see’. Of course, in our century saturated...
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Published: 01 December 2016
..., differential diagnosis, teaching points, management, and further reading suggestions. Ultrasound small parts pathologies Achilles tendon tear Achilles tendon AT rupture Tendinosis ▶ 43-Year-old male with acute ankle pain after stepping off a curb (Figs. 144.1 – 144.6 ) 482 Fig. 144.1 Fig. 144.2 Fig...
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Anne Carson and Michael Shaw
Published: 20 November 1999
... in the ninth year of that siege, a quarrel in the Greek camp between Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek rulers, and Achilles, their best warrior, that leads to Achilles’ withdrawal. This in turn leads to a series of events that end with the death of the Trojans’ best warrior, Hektor. But in the course...
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Published: 06 August 1998
... and editors of the Bible, this story was unremarkable. Achilles Tatius Leucippe and Cleitophon Aptowitzer V Bartsch Shadi Batiffol P 3 Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find anyone else like this—one in whom is the spirit of God?” So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “since God has shown you all...
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Published: 12 October 2000
...0 12 10 2000 All running athletes, including anyone who participates in the sport that involves running and jumping, risk the risk of Achilles tendinitis than ever before. In fact, Achilles tendinitis has become by far the most common athletic injury (Clancy 1982). athletic Achilles...