In this penetrating and compelling reinterpretation of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Kevin Crotty explores the connection between the "poetic" nature of supplication on the one hand, and, on the other, the importance of supplication in the structure and poetics of the two epics. The supplicant's attempt to rouse pity by calling to mind a vivid sense of grief, he says, is important for an understanding of the poems, which invite their audience to contemplate scenes of past grieving. A poetics of supplication, Crotty asserts, leads irresistibly to a poetics of the Homeric epic.
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Book 24 of the Iliad has seemed to many commentators to evince a spirit different from the rest of the poem. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Penelope's Renown, Middle Voice, New York, The Poetics of Supplication, The Poetry of the Past, Harvard University Press, Clarendon Press, Odysseus Polutropos, Pietro Pucci, Cambridge University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Lloyd Jones, Princeton University Press, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Journal of Hellenic Studies, Poet's Voice, Social Action, Transactions of the American Philological Association, Early Greek Poetry, House of Atreus, Agathe Thornton, American Journal of Philology, Aristotle's Poetics, Balinese Cockfight, Bernard Fenik New!
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Book 24 of the Iliad has seemed to many commentators to evince a spirit different from the rest of the poem. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Penelope's Renown, Middle Voice, New York, The Poetics of Supplication, The Poetry of the Past, Harvard University Press, Clarendon Press, Odysseus Polutropos, Pietro Pucci, Cambridge University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Lloyd Jones, Princeton University Press, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Journal of Hellenic Studies, Poet's Voice, Social Action, Transactions of the American Philological Association, Early Greek Poetry, House of Atreus, Agathe Thornton, American Journal of Philology, Aristotle's Poetics, Balinese Cockfight, Bernard Fenik New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Homer: The Poetry of the Past by Andrew Laughlin Ford on 9 pages
- The Greeks and the Irrational (Sather Classical Lectures) by E. R. Dodds on 5 pages
- Homer on Life and Death (C Cpb T Clarendon Paperbacks) by Jasper Griffin on 4 pages
- Works and Days (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) by Hesiod on 4 pages
- Iliad and Odyssey by Homer on 4 pages
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- Romanticism and War: A Study of British Romantic Period Writers and the Napoleonic Wars by Prof. J. R. Watson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Waking Dream of T. E. Lawrence: Essays on His Life, Literature, and Legacy by Charles M. Stang on page 130
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