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By Benjamin Sammons

ISBN-10: 0195375688

ISBN-13: 9780195375688

In The artwork and Rhetoric of the Homeric Catalogue, Benjamin Sammons takes a clean examine a well-recognized component of the Homeric epics -- the poetic catalogue. This examine uncovers the nice number of capabilities fulfilled through as a way of speech inside of very various contexts, starting from celebrated examples comparable to the poet's recognized "Catalogue of Ships," to others much less often taken care of lower than this rubric, resembling catalogues in the speech and rhetoric of Homer's characters. Sammons indicates that catalogue poetry is not any ossified or primitive relic of the outdated culture, yet a residing subgenre of poetry that's utilized by Homer in an artistic and unique approach. He reveals that catalogues can be used via the poet or his characters to mirror -- or distort -- the topics of the poem at huge, to impose an interpretation on occasions as they spread, and probably to allude to competing poetic traditions or perhaps contemporaneous poems. all through, the learn specializes in how Homer makes use of his catalogue to speak about the epic style itself: to discover the limits of the heroic global, the boundaries of heroic glory, and the beliefs and realities of his personal conventional function as an epic bard. construction on a renewed curiosity within the "literary record" in different disciplines, Sammons exhibits that Homer is not just one of many earliest recognized practitioners of the poetic catalogue, yet one of many subtlest and so much skillful.

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