Artistry of the Homeric Simile
Material type: TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Hanover : Dartmouth College Press, 2012Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781611682298
- Simile
- Rhetoric, Ancient
- Oral tradition
- Oral-formulaic analysis
- Greek language -- Figures of speech
- Grec (Langue) -- Figures de rhetorique
- Analyse des formules orales
- Tradition orale -- Grece
- Rhetorique ancienne
- Comparaison (Rhetorique)
- Simile
- Rhetoric, Ancient
- Oral-formulaic analysis
- Oral tradition -- Greece
- Homer -- Literary style
- Greek language -- Figures of speech
- Greek language -- Figures of speech
- Oral-formulaic analysis
- Oral tradition -- Greece
- Rhetoric, Ancient
- Simile
- Homer -- Literary style
- Greece
Preface ·; CHAPTER ONE; Similes, the Shield of Achilles, and Other Digressions ·; The Usefulness of Book Divisions ·; CHAPTER TWO; The Simileme: The Background of the Homeric Simile ·; The Oral Nature of Homeric Verse ·; The Simileme ·; Homer and His Audience ·; Simile and Simileme ·; CHAPTER THREE; Homer's Use of Similes to Delineate Character and Plot ·; Iliad, Book 2: Ironic Characterization ·; The Similes of Book 2 ·; The Role of Similes in Book 2 ·; Iliad, Books 21 and 22: Similes to Show a Thematic Contrast ·; Iliad, Book 11: Similes to Mark a Shifting Scene ·; Conclusion ·
CHAPTER FOURSimiles to Delineate a Narrative Theme ·; Iliad, Book 12: Direct Focus on a Single Theme ·; Iliad, Book 5: The Use of Parallel Similemes to Create a Unified Theme ·; Odyssey, Book 22: Similes to Interpret Typical Actions ·; Odyssey, Book 5: Thematic Similes ·; Conclusion ·; CHAPTER FIVE; Problem Books ·; Iliad, Book 13: The Ordering of Conscious Chaos ·; Iliad, Book 17: Similes as Guides through a Series of Type Scenes ·; Iliad, Book 16: Similes for Complexity ·; Conclusion ·; CHAPTER SIX; The Creative Poet and the Co-creating Audience ·; The Simile within the Narrative ·
The Poet's Choices in Forming the Individual Simile ·The Creative Moment: Poet and Audience ·; Charts of Similemes: The Basic Motifs ·; Notes ·; Bibliography ·; Index ·
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An examination of the aesthetic qualities of the Homeric simile.
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