Epic Grief

Personal Laments in Homer's Iliad

By:

Christos Tsagalis

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Hardback

Series:

Untersuchungen Zur Antiken Literatur Und Geschichte

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This study of the gooi or personal laments in Homer's Iliad once and for all articulates the poetic techniques regulating this type of speech. Going beyond the tendency to view lament as a repetitive and group-based activity, this work shows instead the primacy of the goos, a subgenre which the Iliad has "produced" by absorbing the funerary genre of lament. Oral theory, narratology, semiotics, rhetorical analysis are deftly applied to explore the ways personal laments develop principal epic themes and unravel narrative threads weaving the thematical texture of the entire Iliad (and beyond): the wrath of Achilles, the deaths of Patroclus and Hector, the grief of Achilles and his future death, the foreshadowing of Troy's destruction.

Author Biography:

Christos Tsagalis is a lecturer in Classics at the University of Athens, Greece.

Release date Australia

June 24th, 2004

Author

Christos Tsagalis

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Professional & Vocational

Edition

Reprint 2012

Illustrations

2 Tables, black and white

Pages

240

Series

Untersuchungen Zur Antiken Literatur Und Geschichte

Dimensions

155x230x14

ISBN-13

9783110179446

Product ID

3872373

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