TY - BOOK ID - 4890292 TI - Homer beside himself : para-narratives in the Iliad PY - 2000 SN - 019815285X 9780198152859 PB - Oxford : Oxford university press, DB - UniCat KW - Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature. KW - Epic poetry, Greek KW - Trojan War KW - Storytelling in literature. KW - Narration (Rhetoric). KW - Rhetoric, Ancient. KW - Achille (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature KW - Poésie épique grecque KW - Guerre de Troie KW - Art de conter dans la littérature KW - Narration KW - Rhétorique ancienne KW - History and criticism. KW - Literature and the war. KW - Histoire et critique KW - Littérature et guerre KW - Homer. KW - Homer KW - Technique. KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature KW - Storytelling in literature KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - Literature and the war KW - Achille (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature KW - Poésie épique grecque KW - Art de conter dans la littérature KW - Rhétorique ancienne KW - Littérature et guerre KW - Achilles KW - In literature. KW - Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism KW - Narration (Rhetoric) - History - To 1500 KW - Trojan War - Literature and the war KW - Homer - Iliad UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4890292 AB - Students reading the Iliad for the first time are often bewildered by the sheer volume of information on apparently unrelated subjects contained in it. The central narrative seems to unfold very slowly, and to be complicated by long speeches containing stories which might be interesting in themselves, but which seem to have no relevance to anything else. In this book Dr Alden offers advice on how to read the Iliad through the relationship of major paradigms to the events of the main narrative. The first section offers the first full-length study in English of the paradigmatic functions of secondary narratives and minor-key episodes in the Iliad. None of these are irrelevant or merely ornamental: rather each is carefully selected and altered if necessary, to reflect on significant episodes of the main narrative and act as guides to its interpretation. The second section offers a general reading of the Iliad arising out of Phoenix's advice to Achilles in Book 9. The allegory of the Prayers illustrates the dire consequences of rejecting prayers, and the paradigm of Meleager presents us with an instance of an angry hero to whom prayers and entreaties are addressed, whilst the primary narrative confines this motif of prayers and entreaties in ascending scale of affection to Achilles and Hector and contrasts their responses. Both heroes suffer terribly for their rejection of entreaties. ER -