Homer and the Poetics of Hades

Homer and the Poetics of Hades
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9780198787266
ISBN-13 : 019878726X
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Book Synopsis Homer and the Poetics of Hades by : George Alexander Gazis

Download or read book Homer and the Poetics of Hades written by George Alexander Gazis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique approach to the Iliad and the Odyssey explores the role and function of Hades as a poetic environment in which traditional exposition of heroic values may be subverted in favour of a more personally inflected approach to the epic past, giving rise to a different kind of poetics: the 'poetics of Hades'.


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