Toward the Characterization of Helen in Homer: Appellatives, Periphrastic Denominations, and Noun-Epithet Formulas - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Lowell EdmundsSeries:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes #87Publish date:2021-09-20Pages:183
Language:EnglishPublisher:de GruyterISBN-13:9783110763379ISBN-10:3110763370UPC:9783110763379Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient and ClassicalSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SC0V1VCN81
Toward the Characterization of Helen in Homer: Appellatives, Periphrastic Denominations, and Noun-Epithet Formulas
This monograph lays the groundwork for a new approach of the characterization of the Homeric Helen, focusing on how she is addressed and named in the Iliad and the Odyssey and especially on her epithets. Her social identity in Troy and in Sparta emerges in the words used to address and name her. Her epithets, most of them referring to her beauty or her kinship with Zeus and coming mainly from the...
Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes #87
Language:EnglishPublisher:de GruyterISBN-13:9783110763379ISBN-10:3110763370UPC:9783110763379Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient and ClassicalSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SC0V1VCN81
Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers, New Jersey, US.
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