Jonathan L. Ready

Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the first comprehensive examination of Homer's similes in the Iliad as arenas of heroic competition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781107687332
• ISBN-10: 1107687330
• Artikelnr.: 40139314

Autorenporträt

Jonathan L. Ready is an assistant professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of a chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece (2007) and of a number of articles that have appeared in classics journals including Transactions of the American Philological Association and the American Journal of Philology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The simile and the Homeric comparative spectrum
2. Similes and likenesses in the character-text
3. A preparation for reading sequences of similes
4. Sequences of similes in the character-text
5. Narrator, character, and simile
6. Similes in the narrator-text
Conclusion: the Odyssey compared.