Epic Grief Personal Laments in Homer’s Iliad 1st Edition
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Epic Grief Personal Laments in Homer’s Iliad 1st Edition

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Full Title

Epic Grief Personal Laments in Homer\'s Iliad 1st Edition
Author(s)

Christos Tsagalis
Edition

1st Edition
ISBN

9783110896251, 9783110179446
Publisher

De Gruyter
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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 sub-genre 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. Winner of the Annual Award in Classics (2007) of the Academy of Athens.

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