13%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Homeric Durability: Telling Time in the Iliad
Lorenzo F. Garcia
€ 24.99
€ 21.78
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Homeric Durability: Telling Time in the Iliad
Paperback. Homeric Durability investigates the concepts of time and decay in the Iliad. Through a framework informed by phenomenology and psychology, Lorenzo Garcia argues that, in moments of pain and sorrow, the Homeric gods are themselves defined by human temporal experience, and so the epic tradition cannot but imagine its own eventual disintegration. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 425 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 536.
The Iliad defines its poetic goal as preserving the kleos aphthiton, fame unwithered, (IX.413) of its hero, Achilles. But how are we to understand the status of the unwithered in the Iliad? In Homeric Durability, Lorenzo F. Garcia, Jr., investigates the concept of time and temporality in Homeric epic by studying the semantics of durability and decay : namely, the ability of an entity to withstand the effects of time, and its eventual disintegration. Such objects--the ships of the Achaeans, the bodies of the dead, the walls of the Greeks and Trojans, ... Read more
The Iliad defines its poetic goal as preserving the kleos aphthiton, fame unwithered, (IX.413) of its hero, Achilles. But how are we to understand the status of the unwithered in the Iliad? In Homeric Durability, Lorenzo F. Garcia, Jr., investigates the concept of time and temporality in Homeric epic by studying the semantics of durability and decay : namely, the ability of an entity to withstand the effects of time, and its eventual disintegration. Such objects--the ships of the Achaeans, the bodies of the dead, the walls of the Greeks and Trojans, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
425
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Hellenic Studies Series
Condition
New
Weight
536g
Number of Pages
425
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674073234
SKU
V9780674073234
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Lorenzo F. Garcia
Lorenzo F. Garcia, Jr. is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of New Mexico.
Reviews for Homeric Durability: Telling Time in the Iliad