"This is an original, richly evocative analysis of the meanings of
Odysseus and Helen across several periods and genres of Greek
literary history.... The book is meticulously and persuasively
argued throughout." -- Laura McClure, author of Spoken Like a
Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama
Well before Aristotle's Rhetoric elucidated the elements of
verbal style that give writing its persuasive power, Greek poets
and prose authors understood the importance of style in creating
compelling characters to engage an audience. And because their
works were composed in predominantly oral settings, their sense of
style included not only the characters' manner of speaking, but
also their appearance and deportment. From Homeric epic to
classical tragedy and oratory, verbal and visual cues work
hand-in-hand to create distinctive styles for literary
characters.
In this book, Nancy Worman investigates the development and
evolution of ideas about style in archaic and classical literature
through a study of representations of Odysseus and Helen. She
demonstrates that, as liars and imitators, pleasing storytellers,
and adept users of costume, these two figures are especially
skillful manipulators of style. In tracing the way literary
representations of them changed through time-- from Homer's
positive portrayal of their subtle self-presentations to the
sharply polarized portrayals of these same subtleties in classical
tragedy and oratory-- Worman also uncovers a nascent awareness
among the Greek writers that style may be used not only to persuade
but also to distract and deceive.
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