Dearness and death in the Iliad
Readers have often pointed out that representations of dying warriors in the Iliad, despite the impersonal, unreflective, heterodiegetic form of narration, are typically suffused with a certain pathos. What do we mean by “pathos” in this context? It is argued that we are referring to a group of dist...
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Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2019-01-01
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Series: | Cogent Arts & Humanities |
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2019.1686803 |