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Heinrich Hettrich und Karin Stüber befassen sich in diesem Band mit der Syntax infinitivischer Formen im R?gveda und den homerischen Epen. Hettrich gibt in einem ersten Teil fu?r den R?gveda einen Überblick über jene syntaktischen Konstruktionen, an denen in der Fachliteratur als Infinitiv bezeichnete Formen beteiligt sind. Damit schafft er die Voraussetzungen für die Rekonstruktion voreinzelsprachlicher syntaktischer Strukturen. Stüber geht in einem zweiten Teil der Frage nach, in welchen syntaktischen Konstruktionen der homerische Infinitiv alte Muster fortsetzt, die durch den Vergleich mit den Gegebenheiten im Vedischen als ererbt betrachtet werden dürfen. Gegenstand ihrer Untersuchung sind insbesondere Strukturen, in denen die Herkunft des Infinitivs aus einem finalen Verbalabstraktum noch greifbar ist und Desemantisierung noch nicht oder nur in geringem Maß stattgefunden hat.

Homer --- Language. --- Vedas. --- Homer - Language.

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The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German, presents the latest developments in Homeric scholarship. Through the English translation of this ground-breaking reference work, edited by S. Douglas Olson, its valuable findings are now made accessible to students and scholars worldwide.

Homer. --- Iliad. --- Ilias. --- Patroclus.

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Homer and the Poetics of Hades offers a new and unique approach to the Iliad and, more particularly, the Odyssey through an exploration of the role and function of the Underworld as a poetic resource permitting an alternative perspective on the epic past. By portraying Hades as a realm where vision is not possible, Homer creates a unique poetic environment in which social constraints and divine prohibitions do not apply, resulting in anarrative which emulates that of the Muses but which at the same time is markedly distinct from it. In Hades experimentation with, and alteration of, important epic forms and values can be pursued with greater freedom, giving rise to a different kind of poetics: the 'poetics of Hades'.In the Iliad, Homer offers us a glimpse of how this alternative poetics works through the visit of Patroclus' shade in Achilles' dream. The recollection offered by the shade reveals an approach to its past in which regret, self-pity, and a lingering memory of intimate and emotional moments displace an objective tone and traditional exposition of heroic values. However, the potential of Hades for providing alternative means of commemorating the past is more fully explored in the 'Nekyia' of Odyssey 11: there, Odysseus' extraordinary ability to see the dead in Hades allows him to meet and interview the shades of heroines and heroes of the epic past, while the absolute confinement of Hades allows the shades to recount their stories from their own personal points of view. The poetic implications are significant, since by visiting Hades and listening to the stories of the shades Odysseus, and Homer with him, gain access to a tradition in which epic values associated with gender roles and even divine law are suspended in favour of a more immediate and personally inflected approach to the epic past. As readers, this alternative poetics offers us more than just a revised framework within which to navigate the Iliad and the Odyssey, inviting as it does a more nuanced understanding of the Greeks' anxieties around mortality and posthumous fame.

Epic poetry, Greek --- History and criticism. --- Homer --- Homer. --- Hades --- Criticism and interpretation. --- E-books --- Epic poetry, Greek. --- Unterwelt --- Hades, --- Homerus, --- Iliad (Homer). --- Odyssey (Homer).

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Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond focuses on the important question of how and why later authors employ Homeric poetry to reflect on various types and aspects of leadership. In a range of essays discussing generically diverse receptions of the epics of Homer in historically diverse contexts, this question is answered in various ways. Rather than considering Homer’s works as literary products, then, this volume discusses the pedagogic dimension of the Iliad and the Odyssey as perceived by later thinkers and writers interested in the parameters of good rule, such as Plato, Philodemus, Polybius, Vergil, and Eustathios.

E-books --- Kings and rulers in literature --- Homer --- Criticism and interpretation --- Influence --- Epik. --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Kings and rulers in literature. --- Rezeption. --- Homer. --- Homerus, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- Homer - Criticism and interpretation --- Homer - Influence