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Toward the Characterization of Helen in Homer: Appellatives, Periphrastic Denominations, and Noun-Epithet Formulas

By Lowell Edmunds

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2019
ISBN
9783110626124, 9783110626025, 9783110763379
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3874594 bytes)
Series
Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes; 87
Pages
183\0
Time added
2023-05-24 06:13:38

Description

This monograph lays the groundwork for a new approach of the characterization of the Homeric Helen, focusing on how she is addressed and named in the Iliad and the Odyssey and especially on her epithets. Her social identity in Troy and in Sparta emerges in the words used to address and name her. Her epithets, most of them referring to her beauty or her kinship with Zeus and coming mainly from the narrator, make her the counterpart of the heroes.

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