'Lieber mit Homer irren'? : : scheinbar unmogliche Autopsien in den Totenbegegnungen fruhkaiserzeitlicher Epik / / von Andreas Heil.
"This monograph examines the literary representation of encounters between the living and the dead in Homer and the Roman epic poets of the early imperial period. The focus is on one particular situation: a witness to the afterlife (e.g. Odysseus or the Sibyl) who narrates encounters with the d...
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| Superior document: | Mnemosyne Supplements, Volume 452 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
Volume 452. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 pages) |
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| Summary: | "This monograph examines the literary representation of encounters between the living and the dead in Homer and the Roman epic poets of the early imperial period. The focus is on one particular situation: a witness to the afterlife (e.g. Odysseus or the Sibyl) who narrates encounters with the dead that he or she cannot (it would appear) actually have seen. This insufficiently studied and intriguing motif, namely seemingly impossible eye-witness testimony, can already be traced in Homer and then with variations in Vergil, the Culex poet, Lucan, Silius Italicus, and Statius"-- |
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| ISBN: | 9789004511354 9789004511347 |
| ISSN: | 0169-8958 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | von Andreas Heil. |