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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| description | <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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| spelling | oxford-uuid:fa2ef1b5-320a-4830-b375-69c7bd053b102022-03-27T13:03:49ZSchrödinger’s Mouse: Liminality and the ΛΙΜΝΗ in the BatrachomyomachiaJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:fa2ef1b5-320a-4830-b375-69c7bd053b10EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordCambridge University Press2017Hosty, M<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> |
| spellingShingle | Hosty, M Schrödinger’s Mouse: Liminality and the ΛΙΜΝΗ in the Batrachomyomachia |
| title | Schrödinger’s Mouse: Liminality and the ΛΙΜΝΗ in the Batrachomyomachia |
| title_full | Schrödinger’s Mouse: Liminality and the ΛΙΜΝΗ in the Batrachomyomachia |
| title_fullStr | Schrödinger’s Mouse: Liminality and the ΛΙΜΝΗ in the Batrachomyomachia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Schrödinger’s Mouse: Liminality and the ΛΙΜΝΗ in the Batrachomyomachia |
| title_short | Schrödinger’s Mouse: Liminality and the ΛΙΜΝΗ in the Batrachomyomachia |
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