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  1. Perfidy and passion
    reintroducing the Iliad
    Author: Buchan, Mark
    Published: c2012
    Publisher:  University of Wisconsin Press, Madison

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0299286339; 9780299286330
    RVK Categories: FH 20028
    Subjects: Epic poetry, Greek
    Other subjects: Homer: Iliad; Homerus (ca. v8. Jh.): Ilias
    Scope: xiv, 196 p
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. Perfidy and passion
    reintroducing the Iliad
    Published: (c)2012
    Publisher:  The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison

    "Homer's Iliad is often considered a poem of blunt truthfulness, his characters' motivation pleasingly simple. A closer look, however, reveals a complex interplay of characters who engage in an awful lot of lies. Beginning with Achilles, who hatches... more

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    "Homer's Iliad is often considered a poem of blunt truthfulness, his characters' motivation pleasingly simple. A closer look, however, reveals a complex interplay of characters who engage in an awful lot of lies. Beginning with Achilles, who hatches a secret plot to destroy his own people, Mark Buchan traces motifs of deception and betrayal throughout the poem. Homer's heroes offer bluster, their passion linked to and explained by their lack of authenticity. Buchan reads Homer's characters between the lies, showing how the plot is structured individual denial and what cannot be said."--Project Muse

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0299286339; 9780299286330
    Series: Wisconsin studies in classics
    Subjects: Epic poetry, Greek; Epic poetry, Greek; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Ancient & Classical; Epic poetry, Greek; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Homer; Homer; Homerus
    Scope: Online Ressource
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    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record

  3. Perfidy and passion
    reintroducing the Iliad
    Author: Buchan, Mark
    Published: ©2012
    Publisher:  The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0299286339; 0299286347; 1283692090; 9780299286330; 9780299286347; 9781283692090
    Series: Wisconsin studies in classics
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical; Iliad (Homer); Epic poetry, Greek; Epic poetry, Greek
    Other subjects: Homer; Homer: Iliad; Homerus (ca. v8. Jh.): Ilias
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
    Notes:

    "Homer's Iliad is often considered a poem of blunt truthfulness, his characters' motivation pleasingly simple. A closer look, however, reveals a complex interplay of characters who engage in an awful lot of lies. Beginning with Achilles, who hatches a secret plot to destroy his own people, Mark Buchan traces motifs of deception and betrayal throughout the poem. Homer's heroes offer bluster, their passion linked to and explained by their lack of authenticity. Buchan reads Homer's characters between the lies, showing how the plot is structured individual denial and what cannot be said."--Project Muse

    Includes bibliographical references and index