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Le sceptre et la lyre : L'Iliade ou les héros de la mémoire
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ISBN: 2841371220 9782841371228 Year: 2002 Publisher: Grenoble : Editions Jérôme Millon,

Epitheta hominum apud Homerum = : The epithetic phrases for the Homeric heroes : a repertory of descriptive expressions for the human characters of the Iliad and the Odyssey
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ISBN: 348711108X 9783487111087 Year: 2002 Volume: 212 Publisher: Hildesheim New York : Olms-Weidmann,


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The names of homeric heroes : problems and interpretations
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ISBN: 3110409976 9783110409970 3110421976 3110422026 9783110578201 9783110421989 3110421984 9783110421972 9783110422023 3110578204 Year: 2015 Volume: 15 Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter,

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The purpose of this book is to contribute to the appreciation of the linguistic, literary and contextual value of Homeric personal names. This is an old topic, which famously interested Plato, and an object of constant scholarly attention from the time of ancient commentators to the present day. The book begins with an introduction to the particularly complex set of factors that affect all efforts to interpret Homeric names. The main chapters are structured around the character and action of selected heroes in their Homeric contexts (in the case of the Iliad, a heroic war; the Odyssey chapter encompasses more than one planes of action). They offer a survey of modern etymologies, set against ancient views on names and naming, in order to reconstruct (as far as possible) the reception of significant names by ancient audiences and further to shed light on the parameters surrounding the choice and use of personal names in Homer. An Appendix touches on the underexplored career of Homeric personal names as historical names, offering data and a preliminary analysis.

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