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Clothed in Armor and Epithets,
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This review is from: 05 Achilles and Hector: Homeric Hero (Paperback)
This is an excellent book. The author presents two aspects of the epics, the action in 1200BC, and the story in 800BC. He presents The Iliad, for example, in these two aspects; a war that happened in 1200BC, and the epic itself as a poem from 800BC, and also the window from which we observe that war. In the war the Homeric heroes are clothed and defined as heroes by their armor. ("Without our armor we are as naked as women.") In the poem itself they are linguistically clothed and defined by their epithets. Each line in Homer has six slots to fill, does he just add two adjectives and an adverb to each SOV sentence to fill them? No, the author's careful analysis of the Heroic epithets draws out their meaning and contribution to the story. What readers often sense today as needless repetition, to Homer's hearers in 700BC must have seemed like animation and dramatic emphasis.
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05 Achilles and Hector: Homeric Hero by Michael Davis (Paperback - July 20, 2005)
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