The Rhythm of the Gods’ Voice. The Suggestion of Divine Presence through Prosody
In this article, I draw attention to the gods’ pickiness in the audible flow of their utterances, a prosodic characteristic of speech that evokes the presence of the divine. Hexametric poetry itself is the language of permanency, as evidenced by wisdom literature, funereal and dedicatory inscriptio...
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Language: | deu |
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Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
2020-12-01
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Series: | Arys. Antigüedad, Religiones y Sociedades |
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Online Access: | https://e-revistas.uc3m.es/index.php/ARYS/article/view/5310 |