Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad
Jonathan L. (Indiana University) Ready
Cambridge University Press, 2011
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Jonathan L. Ready demonstrates that Homer uses similes in the Iliad as arenas of heroic competition. In addition to presenting the first sustained critical exploration of similes spoken by characters, Ready investigates similes the narrator uses to describe battles and provides a new way to account for their length.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521190640
- ISBN-10
- 0521190649
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2011
- Publication date
- 2011-04-11
- Pages
- 334
- Dimensions
- 229x152x22
- Weight
- 57