Schrödinger’s Mouse: Liminality and the ΛΙΜΝΗ in the Batrachomyomachia
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This article argues that the ambiguity over whether certain characters are alive or dead during the second half of the <jats:italic>Batrachomyomachia</jats:italic> is not only deliberate, as previous scholars have suggested, but...
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Cambridge University Press
2017
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| Summary: | <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This article argues that the ambiguity over whether certain characters are alive or dead during the second half of the <jats:italic>Batrachomyomachia</jats:italic> is not only deliberate, as previous scholars have suggested, but part of a complex intertextual relationship with <jats:italic>Iliad</jats:italic> 21 and Achilles’ battle in the Scamander. It concludes by suggesting that the poet's decision to stage this new battle in a ƛίμνη, a pool or pond, helps to articulate the ideas of life, death and resurrection which characterize this section of the poem.</jats:p> |
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