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Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age are a comprehensive 3-volume work that features the history of the ancient Greek literature, focusing on the Homeric Question – concerning by whom, when, where and under what circumstances the Iliad and Odyssey, its foundational works, were composed._x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ Prolegomena:_x000D_ On the State of the Homeric Question_x000D_ The Place of Homer in Classical Education_x000D_ On the Historic Aims of Homer_x000D_ On the Probable Date of Homer_x000D_ The Probable Trustworthiness of the Text of Homer_x000D_ Place and Authority of Homer in Historical Inquiry_x000D_ Achæis - Ethnology of the Greek Races:_x000D_ Scope of the Inquiry_x000D_ On the Pe...
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Using hidden linguistic configurations, explores the issue of Virgil's authority in the Divine comedy as compared to other poets, guides, and demons.
"This book concerns the rhetoric of visual manipulation that provokes readers to envision what is written on the page, treating visual details in ancient epic not as mere scene-setting information or enhancements to any given story, but as cues for performing specific imaginative processes. Through a series of close readings centred primarily on Virgil's Aeneid, the book aims to show that the experiential effects that Virgil puts into play do serious narrative work of their own by structuring lines of sight, both visual and emotive, and shifting them about in ways that move readers into and out of the visual and emotional worlds of the story's characters. Whereas most studies of narrative vi...
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