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The Names of Homeric Heroes - Problems and Interpretations

English · Hardback

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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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Nikoletta Kanavou, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

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"Das Buch ist ohne Zweifel sehr nützlich und bietet eine kluge, gut recherchierte Aufbereitung der gewählten Thematik."
Michael Meier-Brögger in: Gnomon Bd. 88, 2016

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Authors Nikoletta Kanavou
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.2015
 
EAN 9783110409970
ISBN 978-3-11-040997-0
No. of pages 188
Dimensions 160 mm x 235 mm x 16 mm
Weight 404 g
Series Sozomena
Sozomena
ISSN
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies

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