..., oath-sacrifices, women and weaving, Helen’s relationship to epic, and Indo-European elements in the Teichoskopia (“Watching at the Wall”). Under the category of poetics it discusses: similes, the two names of Paris, the organization of the narrative, and counterfactual constructions...

... under poetics: lamentation as an oral genre, similes, and ekphrasis. ekphrasis Achilles Thetis divine intervention mortality similes time debate and dispute lament Achilles burial debate ekphrasis lament mortality shield of Achilles similes temporality Thetis Book 18 marks...

... colonies. Yet Asia at the same time gave the older Milton the similes that helped him keep the sense of the exotic that marked Moscovia and allowed him to create the vast world of space and time that marks Paradise Lost. Beijing Cathay China Chaucer Geoffrey works...

..., this last item also making an essential contribution to the creation of a storyworld. The poem encourages spatio-temporal immersion by generating motor resonance and by its use of internal focalization, inclusive forms of address, similes, and various methods for presenting the speech of characters...

... analyses of similes in five modern oral poetries. Examining the poet’s reliance on shared similes in the performances of two epic poems, The Epic of Pābūjī (Rajasthan, India) and The Guritan of Radin Suane (South Sumatra), prepares us to pay attention to shared similes...

...Our Homeric poets strove to display their competence by doing what their predecessors and peers did. To discover the shared similes in the Iliad and the Odyssey, the chapter first reviews the (nearly) verbatim short vehicle portions and similar long vehicle...

...Like modern oral poets, our Homeric poets constructed their idiolectal similes in two ways. Some idiolectal similes comprise an idiolectal vehicle and an unparalleled tenor, and other idiolectal similes comprise an idiolectal vehicle and a paralleled tenor. The Iliad poet...

... first section. The chapter is accompanied by two appendices with translations, the first of Eustathios’ general discussion of the form and function of Homeric similes, the second of his reflections on the role of the invocations of the Muses in Homeric poetry. Catalogue of Ships composition Homeric...

...The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives: Oral Traditions from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia investigates both the construction of the Homeric simile and the performance of Homeric poetry from neglected comparative perspectives. The first part considers similes in five modern...

...Ruth Bielfeldt, The Axe’s Heart Work: ‘Technē and Animation in Homeric Craft Similes’ In: Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity. Edited by: Edited by Tatiana Bur, Maria Gerolemou, and Isabel A.Ruffell, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2024. DOI:10.1093/oso...

...This chapter compares Homer with Hesiod or Archilochus, the first two post-Homeric Greek poets whose work still survives. It observes that Homeric epic is not personal in its scope or presentation: it does not seek to reflect—except incidentally, through extended similes—the manners, beliefs...

... of a word and rhetorical or imaginative uses. The chapter presents examples of exploitations in relation to word meaning and proposes a tentative typology of exploitations, including anomalous collocations, ellipsis, creative linguistic metaphors and similes, and some other figures of speech. Idioms...

... to demonstrate the many ways in which natural details are processed in his poetry: as topographical features, metaphors, formal similes, and as spiritual, moral and political emblems or symbols. Spenser Edmund Thomas Keith Aquinas Thomas Bacon Francis Chaucer Geoffrey Ovid the Vulgate Wordsworth William...

... and technological determinists as first and foremost a visual medium. However, the haptic quality of visual images, in addition to the frequent foregrounding of air fresheners and less-pleasant odors in horror films (as well as the linguistic likening of one sensation for another, through metaphors and similes...

... associations of Ulysses with violence in a number of similes in the narrative. The chapter then moves on to an arresting and gender-bending equivalence of Ulysses as a metapoetic force of furor, akin to well-known Furies in the literary tradition, offering novel reflections on gender...

... are Agamemnon, leadership, deceit, the army, dissent, and (dis)order. The topics considered in the section on poetics are invocations, similes, and catalogues. Agamemnon debate and dispute Zeus Odysseus similes catalogues invocations Achilles Achilles Agamemnon catalogues dissent invocation oral...

... and especially in Paradise Lost. I then consider what I call Milton’s “hyperbolic similes” in Paradise Lost. In the last part of this chapter I examine Milton’s attempts to depict the impossibly huge sublimities of the universe—indeed the multiverse—in the poem...

... of the Troubles The Northern Ireland Gainsford Peter type scenes Iliad war Astyanax Hector Palmer George H Civil War Greek Picasso Guernica Rieu Emile V simile time and timelessness Billy Blue character in Walcott’s The Odyssey A Stage Version the Blues Penelope Atwood Margaret Eurycleia...

... translation similes Elizabeth Minchin This chapter examines Christopher Logue’s ongoing adaptation of the Iliad as a study in the cultural politics of reading Homer in translation over the last fifty years. ¹ As an original adaptation of Homer by a Greekless poet that has been...

...Chart A. Simile clusters in the poems of ad-Dindān (Kurpershoek 1994) Poem # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Line # 3b 4b 2b 3b 3b 2a–b 2a 2b 9b 7b 4a 3b 11b 3a 5b...