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The Names of Homeric Heroes - Problems and Interpretations (Hardcover, Digital original)
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The Names of Homeric Heroes - Problems and Interpretations (Hardcover, Digital original)
Series: Sozomena
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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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