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Pillot, William. "Ilion en Troade, de la colonisation éolienne au Haut Empire romain." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040146.
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La petite cité grecque d’Ilion offre un exemple original d’identité civique complexe mêlant éléments grecs et « barbares » (i. e. non grecs) grâce à l’utilisation des différents mythes liés à la guerre de Troie. Cette construction identitaire mythique s’enracine dans un site particulièrement riche où les différents niveaux archéologiques se superposent et s’enchevêtrent de l’âge du Bronze à l’époque romaine (Troie I à IX). Elle est aussi nourrie de diverses influences, anatoliennes et égéennes, particulièrement sensibles dans le cas d’Ilion car cette cité, située au bord de l’Hellespont, se trouve en situation de carrefour géopolitique et culturel entre Europe et Asie. Le sanctuaire d’Athéna Ilias joue un rôle central dans l’identité, les mythes et l’histoire de la cité. Mais ce sanctuaire est aussi le centre d’une association religieuse regroupant plusieurs autres cités, principalement de Troade mais aussi d’au-delà, comme Myrléa en Propontide et même Chalcédoine sur le Bosphore, qui administrent en commun le sanctuaire et participent à des panégyries et des concours sacrés en l’honneur de cette divinité à la fois civique et fédérale. L’autre principal lieu de culte d’Ilion, le « Sanctuaire Ouest », témoigne lui aussi d’influences à la fois européennes et asiatiques<br>This PhD thesis intends to offer a synthesis concerning the Greek city-State of Ilion. This city-State offers an original example of a complex civic identity which mixes Greek and “barbaric” (i.e. non-Greek) elements through the use of different myths relating to the Trojan war. This mythical construction of identity is rooted in a particularly rich site where the various archaeological levels are superimposed and tangled together, from the Bronze age to the Roman period (Troy I to IX), as evidenced by H. Schliemann, the inventor of the site, which is still nowadays being excavated by German and American teams. Ilion’s identity is also fueled by various influences, Anatolian and Aegean, that are particularly sensitive because of the fact that the city is located at a geopolitical and cultural crossroad between Europe and Asia. The sanctuaries of Ilion play a central role in the identity, the myths and the history of the city, especially the sanctuary of Athena Ilias. It is the centre of a religious association (koinon) which regroups several other cities, from Troad and even beyond, who administer the sanctuary together and participate in festivals and sacred games in honor of this divinity that is both civic and federal. The second main cult site of Ilion, called “West Sanctuary”, is also a testimony of European and Asian influences
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Schäfer, Melsene. "Der Götterstreit in der Ilias /." Stuttgart : B. G. Teubner, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb354883187.
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Usener, Knut. "Beobachtungen zum Verhältnis der Odyssee zur Ilias /." Tübingen : G. Narr, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35516371x.
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Csajkas, Peter. "Die singulären Iterata der Ilias : Bücher 11-15 /." München : K.G. Saur, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb392342661.
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Blössner, Norbert. "Die singulären Iterata der "Ilias" : Bücher 16-20 /." Stuttgart : B. G. Teubner, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb357412973.
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Papadakis, Manuela. "Ilias- und Iliupersisdarstellungen auf frühen rotfiguren Vasen /." Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39150502w.
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Hellmann, Oliver. "Die Schlachtszenen der Ilias : das Bild des Dichters vom Kampf in der Heroenzeit /." Stuttgart : F. Steiner, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37627908q.
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Csajkas, Peter Homer. "Die singulären Iterata der Ilias Bücher 11-15 /." München : Saur, 2002. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/49730920.html.
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Wissmann, Jessica. "Motivation und Schmähung : Feigheit in der "Ilias" und in der griechischen Tragödie /." Stuttgart : M. & P. Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb390793362.
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Stickley, Patrick R. "Grief in the Iliad." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/205.
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This paper addresses the causes and effects of grief within Homer's Iliad. In addition, this paper argues that error, both committed and suffered, is the primary cause of grief, and that grief is particularly transformative in regard to Achilles, both in his motivations and his physicality.
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Lonsdale, Steven H. "Creatures of speech, lion, herding, and hunting similes in the "Iliad" /." Stuttgart : B. G. Teubner, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35535754m.
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Poulengeris, Andreas Christou. "Studies on the text of Iliad 3-5." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271299.
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In these studies I discuss a number of selected passages from Iliad 3-5 where there are textual variations supported by extant minuscule copies and about which we can reasonably argue that they also existed in the text of uncial COpIes. The purpose of these discussions is to assert the claim of each variant to direct tradition, i.e. that their presence in the medieval minuscule tradition is due to inheritance from the text of extant or lost uncial copies, or, to use an abbreviated term, that they are ancient; and also to assert its utility for the evaluation or classification of the manuscripts which attest it, i. e. to identify the manuscripts which are the rightful heirs of such a variant through early lost minuscules, as well as to identify closely related groups of manuscripts. I have limited myself to a selection of the older manuscripts and attempted to discover by analysis which of these manuscripts are the most useful in preserving ancient variants. This approach differs from Allen's, who in the case of his edition of 1931 uses some 180 manuscripts and in the case of the Oxford Classical Text of 1920 mainly manuscript families on the strength of numerical agreements in various readings, resulting in a most unsatisfactory state of affairs in both cases. In the second part I provide a collation of the chosen manuscripts for Iliad 18, to demonstrate how reliable or unreliable Allen's collations are. I also provide an apparatus criticus for the same book which is not meant to serve the ordinary purpose of an apparatus criticus (no notice is taken of papyri, quotations, or modem conjectures), but only to show what the manuscript picture looks like, on the evidence of my collation for the variants judged worthy of mention in the Oxford Classical Text
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O'Maley, James. ""Like-mindedness"? Intra-familial relations in the Iliad and the Odyssey." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/6725.
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This thesis argues that the defining characteristic of intra-familial relationships in both the Iliad and the Odyssey is inequality. Homeric relationship pairs that are presented positively are strongly marked by an uneven distribution of power and authority, and when family members do not subscribe to this ideology, the result is a dysfunctional relationship that is condemned by the poet and used as a negative paradigm for his characters. Moreover, the inequality favoured by the epics proceeds according to strict role-based rules with little scope for innovation according to personality, meaning that determination of authority is simple in the majority of cases. Wives are expected to submit themselves to their husbands, sons to their fathers, and less powerful brothers to their more dominant siblings. This rigid hierarchy does create the potential for problems in some general categories of relationship, and relations between mothers and sons in particular are strained in both epics, both because of the shifting power dynamic between them caused by the son’s increasing maturity and independence from his mother and her world, and because of Homeric epic’s persistent conjunction of motherhood with death. This category of familial relationships is portrayed in the epics as doomed to failure, but others are able to be depicted positively through adhering to the inequality that is portrayed in the epics as both natural and laudable.<br>I will also argue that this systemic pattern of inequality can be understood as equivalent to the Homeric concept of homophrosyne (“like-mindedness”), a term which, despite its appearance of equality, in fact refers to a persistent inequality. Accordingly, for a Homeric relationship to be portrayed as successful, one partner must submit to the other, adapting themselves to the other’s outlook and aims, and subordinating their own ideals and desires. Through this, they are able to become “like-minded” with their partners, achieving something like the homophrosyne recommended for husbands and wives in the Odyssey.
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Lebowitz, Willy. "Complex unity "self" and deliberation in Homer's Odyssey and Iliad /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1576.
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Wilson, Jeffrey Dirk. "Homer's paradigm of being a philosophical reading of the Iliad and the Odyssey /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Pfalzgraf, Annegret. "Eine deutsche Ilias ? : Homer und das "Nibelungenlied" bei Johann Jakob Bodmer, zu den Anfängen der nationalen Nibelungenrezeption im 18. Jahrhundert /." Marburg : Tectum Verl, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb410423342.
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Goussias, Giannoula. "Heroes and heroic life in the Iliad and Akritic folk-song /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armg717.pdf.
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Jong, Irene J. F. de. "Narrators and focalizers : the presentation of the story in the "Iliad /." Amsterdam : B.R. Grüner, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34945571d.
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Garcia, Lorenzo Francisco. "Homeric temporalities simultaneity, sequence, and durability in the Iliad /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1481658181&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Privitera, Siobhán Marie. "Brain, body, and world : cognitive approaches to the Iliad and the Odyssey." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25464.
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This thesis investigates the physical, material, and experiential aspects of thought and emotion in the Iliad and the Odyssey; more specifically, the ways in which the Homeric mind is extended through and by the body, and in which the body and its extensions express, illustrate, and inform psychological processes and mental concepts in Homer. Recent studies in cognitive science—in embodied, extended, embedded, and enactive approaches to mind—demonstrate the extent to which our psychological development is deeply and inextricably shaped not just within the confines of the brain, but also in the body and the world. This thesis seeks to apply these insights to the Iliad and the Odyssey, in order to show how this is also the case for Homer’s characters. In doing so, it primarily argues that Homeric conceptualizations of mind constitute the narrator’s way of presenting a “phenomenology of experience” throughout the poems: a reconstruction of the psychological workings of his characters that draws upon the physical, material, perceptual, and interactional aspects of experience.
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Frisby, Danielle Marianne. "Epic precedence : Statius’ Thebaid and its intertextual links to the Iliad of Homer." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.594601.
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This thesis explores the intertextual relationship of Statius' Thebaid with Homer's Iliad. It is an uneasy relationship. wavering between playful competition and the nihilistic sense that a competition taken to such hyperbolic levels is self-destructive, corresponding with the issue at the heart of the narrative: civil war. It considers key features of epic poetry: the gods, cosmos, and epic substitution in examining the Thebaid's response to the Iliad. The nature of civil war in the text is a major concern, brought out through confusion of identities in blending of characters, and the way the narrative uneasily inhabits the epic genre. Characters and scenes allude to multiple points in the literary tradition between Homer and Statius, including Vergil, Ovid, Lucan, Aeschylus and Callimachus. Statius highlights and often 'corrects' Vergil by going back to Homer, and seems to set up a conflict in the genre. I address how the natural world of epic seeps through from imagery into reality, and indicates the emotional and destructive nature of civil conflict. Homeric violence is escalated to render heroes more impressive than their Homeric counterparts, but also more transgressive and essentially self-defeating in their attempt to compete with Homeric precedent. Problems of divine patronage are brought out, as well as apparently split personalities in gods. Multiple poet figures, even within one character, indicate multiple conflicted narratorial voices pulling the reader in different, often opposing directions. Issues of lineage are frequently brought to the fore, with heroes of the Iliad being the generation after the heroes of the Thebaid, and in some cases their actual descendents, placing the Thebaid in a paradoxical position of being both before and after the Iliad. The result is a disquieting reading of the text which leaves the reader uncertain whether epic has been taken to a new level or made to self-destruct.
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Brown, Howard Paul. "The pragmatics of direct address in the Iliad a study in linguistic politeness /." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1061412264.
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Hernandes, Thárea Raizza [UNESP]. "Homens e deuses na Ilíada: ação e responsabilidade no mundo homérico." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93857.
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hernandes_tr_me_arafcl.pdf: 948923 bytes, checksum: dcb434958bfe35ba2148730da2124da7 (MD5)<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)<br>Este trabalho analisa a relação entre o humano e o divino no âmbito das ações realizadas pelos homens e a responsabilidade que eles teriam ou não sobre elas, na Ilíada. Para tanto, verifica a concepção de homem em Homero, buscando mostrar o homem como unidade capaz de realizar ações e analisa a concepção divina associada às ideias de vontade de Zeus e de Destino, que afetariam a noção de responsabilidade na ação humana. Portanto, desejamos mostrar que as decisões próprias do homem não alteram o curso dos acontecimentos, uma vez que, na Ilíada, deparamos com a mentalidade mítica na qual divindade e homem se completam através de oposições<br>This study analyzes the relationship between the human and the divine in the context of the actions carried out by men, and the responsibility that they would have on them or not, in the Iliad. To do so, it verifies the conception of man in Homer, trying to show the man as a unit capable of performing actions and analyzes the divine conception associated with the ideas of will of Zeus and Destiny, which would affect the notion of responsibility in the human action. Therefore, we wish to show that the man's own decisions do not change the sequences of events, once, in the Iliad, we faced with the mythical mentality in which divinity and man complete each other through opposition
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Zanon, Camila Aline. "A Ilíada de Homero e a arqueologia." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-26032012-111612/.
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A Ilíada de Homero é geralmente caracterizada como um poema que trata da Guerra de Tróia, que teria acontecido mais de 500 anos antes da composição de tal poema, e teria sido transmitido através da tradição oral, até o momento em que foi escrito pela primeira vez. Esperava-se, portanto, que os fatos narrados pelo poeta correspondessem aos achados arqueológicos encontrados para o Período Micênico, mas o que se encontra na Ilíada é uma mistura de elementos da sociedade micênica e da sociedade contemporânea a Homero, ou seja, o século VIII a.C. O estudo da relação entre documentos arqueológicos dos períodos Micênico, Proto-Geométrico e Geométrico, compreendidos entre 1550 e o final do século VIII a.C., e a Ilíada de Homero é composto por duas categorias de fontes distintas, a arqueológica e a escrita, esta como resultado de uma tradição oral que a precedeu. A presente dissertação tem como foco apresentar as informações que se podem depreender da Ilíada de Homero que, de alguma forma, contribuíram para a interpretação arqueológica e se, de tal confronto, surgiram controvérsias entre os dois tipos de fontes, levando a uma reflexão sobre a questão da continuidade e da ruptura de elementos culturais próprios da Civilização Micênica e que, de certa maneira, se refletem nos períodos posteriores em pauta.<br>The Iliad of Homer is generally seen as a poem about the Trojan War, which took place more than 500 years before the composition of such poem, and transmitted by oral tradition down to the moment it was written for the first time. It was hoped, therefore, that the facts narrated by its poet matched the archaeological finds for the Mycenaean Period; instead what is found in the Iliad is an ensemble of the elements of the Mycenaean society and the one contemporary to Homer, which is considered to be the eighth century B.C. The study of the relation between the Mycenaean, Proto-Geometrical, and Geometrical archaeological finds, dating from 1550 to the end of the eighth century B.C., and the Iliad of Homer is based on two different categories of sources, namely the archaeological and the literary ones, the last one being the result of an oral tradition which had preceded it. The present dissertation focuses on showing the information that can be derived from the Iliad of Homer that somehow has contributed to the archaeological interpretation and whether controversies were raised between those two kinds of sources from such a comparison, leading to a reflection about the question of either continuity or rupture of the cultural elements proper to the Mycenaean Civilization and that, in a certain way, are reflected on the later periods concerned.
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Yoon, Sun Kyoung. "(Re)-constructing Homer : English translations of the Iliad and Odyssey between 1850 and 1950." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/47079/.
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This thesis seeks to investigate how translation is influenced by the translator's contexts, dealing with English translations of Homer between 1850 and 1950. English versions of the Iliad and Odyssey by eight translators from different periods are examined chronologically in their historical contexts, with reference to social, political and ideological circumstances. My methodology involves making use of translators' metatexts and other types of texts in combination with comparison of the translated texts. The debate between Matthew Arnold and Francis Newman reveals conflicting ideologies in the nineteenth century: the former committed to promoting a noble template for his society, the latter seeking to reproduce with exacting standards what he perceived as the true peculiarity of the poet. This ideological opposition is reflective of the intrinsic link between translators' interpretations of Homer and attitudes toward translation, and the Victorian age, in social, ideological and political terms. The thesis continues with two more Victorian translators William Morris and J. S. Blackie, focusing on the practice of archaism. Morris translated the Odyssey within a widespread movement of medieval revival. The same applies to Blackie's translation of the Iliad, but his medievalism was connected to the issue of Scottish identity. They idealised history and expressed their vision literalistically through archaising. The focus then changes to examine modernist versions of the Odyssey by Ezra Pound and H. D. Their fragmentary translations were good examples of the modernist project to achieve novelty and originality. Homer represented 'tradition' to engage with in order to pursue the ambition to, in Pound's famous expression, 'make it new'. The modernists took translation as an implement for revisiting the literary tradition. Lastly, this thesis explores mid-twentieth century prose translations by E. V. Rieu and I. A. Richards. Influenced by the egalitarianism of mid-twentieth-century Britain, they attempted to make their translations accessible to everyone. These translations of Homer were targeted at the 'general reader', and for that purpose, Rieu and Richards transformed Homer's originals into novels.
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Bocchetti, Carla. "Cultural geography in Homer : studies on nature and landscape in the 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey'." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269540.
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Ahmed, Proteek. "Uma ilha na colina." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/18192.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Interiores e Reabilitação do Edificado apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.<br>O Trabalho que aqui se apresenta focaliza-se no fenómeno das Ilhas na cidade do Porto. Este tipo de edificado faz parte do passado e do presente deste território, tendo ainda uma presença significativa e emblemática na malha urbana da cidade. Na sua origem, foram soluções habitacionais proporcionadas aos operários que afluíram à cidade do Porto à procura de trabalho nas indústrias tradicionais, mas florescentes da cidade, sobretudo a partir de meados do século XIX. Tal como no passado, também na atualidade estamos perante espaços invisíveis na cidade, que passam desapercebido aos cidadãos e visitantes, uma vez que a sua edificação ocorreu no interior dos quarteirões da urbe. Contudo, aqui, encontramos uma cidade-aldeia, dotada de uma vida social marcada por fortes relações de interconhecimento e de interajuda entre os vizinhos, pela existência de uma certa densidade relacional, mesmo no modo como as pessoas se apropriam dos espaços coletivos circundantes.
De forma mais específica, o nosso olhar recaiu sobre as ilhas do bairro das Fontaínhas, constituindo o local de estudo e de intervenção em termos urbanos e arquitetónicos. Este bairro é composto por três ilhas que foram edificadas junto à fábrica de cerâmica que aí existia: a Ilha da Tapada, a Ilha da Maria Vitorina e a Ilha Olímpia. Estas três ilhas pousam em socalcos sobre a colina íngreme das Fontaínhas, encontrando-se num estado devoluto acentuado. As habitações de tipologia “ilha” que aí ainda resiste, apresentam graves problemas de salubridade e precárias condições de habitabilidade.
Este Projeto Final de Mestrado desenvolve algumas soluções capazes de regenerar e revitalizar este espaço degradado e esquecido da cidade. Acredita-se que é possível qualificar este espaço urbano, de modo a dar continuidade e coerência urbana a esta zona ribeirinha; para além disso, procura-se reabilitar as construções precárias que aí existem, de forma e por um lado, devolver as habitações aos seus moradores, e por outro, proporcionar condições dignas de alojamento a renda acessível, atenuando-se assim a falta de habitação nestes espaços que fazem parte da paisagem (social) da cidade do Porto.<br>ABSTRACT: The present document highlights a phenomenon know as Ilhas do Porto in the city of OPorto. This sets of mass with significant presence in the urban mesh of the city are a result of the constructions built during the industrial development of the city. Known as working quarters where people were housed at, this masses started to invade Oporto’s city on a greater scale from the 19th century forward/onward, in order to improve living conditions for those who were looking to work at the industries. Nowadays, this working quarters are invisible spaces within the city that go unnoticed to any passersby due to its implementation inside the city blocks. However, people who still live in this spaces revealed strong community ties and also a strong feeling of neighborhood through the help and feelings shared between them and wihtin the space. Therefor, this strong feeling of neighborhood and the appropriation of collective spaces, much more emotional rather than racional, where a simple pair of chairs and a table placed on the outside can turn its public space (the distributive corridor) into na exterior dinning área.
This is also the case of the ilhas from the Fontaínhas neighborhood, the place chosen as the intervention site for the present work.
These three ilhas were established in support of the ceramic factory that was once there. A factory that nowadays is no more than ruins. The three ilhas are named as Ilha da Tapada, Ilha Maria Vitorina and Ilha Olimpia. Together they land on top of the Fontainhas Hill. This riverside site of Oporto can be found, nowadays, in a devolute state, where most houses of the ilha typology are in a severe degradation state, presenting salubrity problems and few living conditions.
This territory, which overlooks the Douro river presents severe urban planning and architectural issues, in which this paper intends to study in order to develop solutions capable of regenerating and revitalize a degraded area of this city; to qualify the urban space and offer continuity and coherence to this riverside area; to rehabilitate the precarious state of the remaining buildings and return them to their original inhabitants, also creating more affordable housing conditions, striking the lack of dwellings in such dignifying sites.<br>N/A
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Fox, Peta Ann. "Heroes at the gates appeal and value in the Homeric epics from the archaic through the classical period." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002168.
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This thesis raises and explores questions concerning the popularity of the Homeric poems in ancient Greece. It asks why the Iliad and Odyssey held such continuing appeal among the Greeks of the Archaic and Classical age. Cultural products such as poetry cannot be separated from the sociopolitical conditions in which and for which they were originally composed and received. Working on the basis that the extent of Homer’s appeal was inspired and sustained by the peculiar and determining historical circumstances, I set out to explore the relation of the social, political and ethical conditions and values of Archaic and Classical Greece to those portrayed in the Homeric poems. The Greeks, at the time during which Homer was composing his poems, had begun to establish a new form of social organisation: the polis. By examining historical, literary and philosophical texts from the Archaic and Classical age, I explore the manner in which Greek society attempted to reorganise and reconstitute itself in a different way, developing original modes of social and political activity which the new needs and goals of their new social reality demanded. I then turn to examine Homer’s treatment of and response to this social context, and explore the various ways in which Homer was able to reinterpret and reinvent the inherited stories of adventure and warfare in order to compose poetry that not only looks back to the highly centralised and bureaucratic society of the Mycenaean world, but also looks forward, insistently so, to the urban reality of the present. I argue that Homer’s conflation of a remembered mythical age with the contemporary conditions and values of Archaic and Classical Greece aroused in his audiences a new perception and understanding of human existence in the altered sociopolitical conditions of the polis and, in so doing, ultimately contributed to the development of new ideas on the manner in which the Greeks could best live together in their new social world.
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Baltazar, Christopher. "An analysis of the graphic novel adaptation of the Iliad by Homer for use in the secondary classroom." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1353.
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Power, Michael O'Neill, and mopower@ozemail com au. "Transportation and Homeric Epic." The Australian National University. Faculty of Arts, 2006. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20070502.011543.
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This thesis investigates the impact of transportation the phenomenon of being miles away while receiving a narrative on audience response. The poetics of narrative reception within the Homeric epics are described and the correspondences with the psychological concept of transportation are used to suggest the appropriateness and utility of this theory to understanding audience
responses in and to the Iliad and Odyssey. The ways in which transportation complements and extends some concepts of narrative reception familiar to Homeric studies (the Epic Illusion, Vividness, and Enchantment) are considered, as are the ways in which the psychological theories might be adjusted to accommodate Homeric epic. A major claim is drawn from these theories that
transportation fundamentally affects the audiences interpretation of and responses to the narrative; this claim is tested both theoretically and empirically in terms of ambiguous characterization of Odysseus and the Kyklōps Polyphēmos in
the ninth book of the Odyssey. Last, some consideration is given to the ways in which the theory (and its underlying empirical research) might be extended.
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Malamis, Daniel Scott Christos. "The justice of Dikê on the forms and significance of dispute settlement by arbitration in the Iliad." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002162.
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This thesis explores the forms and significance of dispute settlement by arbitration, or ‘δίκη’, in the Iliad. I take as my focus the ‘storm simile’ of Iliad XVI: 384-393, which describes Zeus’ theodical reaction to corruption within the δίκη-court, and the ‘shield trial’ of Iliad XVIII: 498-508, which presents a detailed picture of such a court in action, and compare the forms and conception of arbitration that emerge from these two ecphrastic passages with those found in the narrative body of the poem. Analysing the terminology and procedures associated with dispute settlement in the Iliad, I explore the evidence for the development of an ‘ideology of δίκη’, that valorises arbitrated settlement as a solution to conflict, and that identifies δίκη as a procedure and a civic institution with an objective standard of fairness: the foundation of a civic concept of ‘justice’. I argue that this ideology is fully articulated in the storm simile and the shield trial, as well as Hesiod’s Works and Days, but that it is also detectable in the narrative body of the Iliad. I further argue that the poet of the Iliad employs references to this ideology, through the narrative media of speech and ecphrasis, to prompt and direct his audience’s evaluation of the nature and outcome of the poem’s central conflict: the dispute of Achilles and Agamemnon.
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DiGirolamo, Antonietta Michelle. "An Investigation of the Effects of Mothers' Participation in Adult Literacy Classes on Interactive Literacy Activities (ILAs) at Home." FIU Digital Commons, 2009. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/285.
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The National Center for Family Literacy (2003a) and the National Even Start Association (2005) have stated that the single most effective and influential factor in increasing student academic achievement is parental involvement. The purpose of this qualitative study was to determine how participation in adult literacy courses influences parent-child interaction in various educationally related activities known as Interactive Literacy Activities (ILAs). This study investigated ILAs from the mothers‟ perspective, and examines the changes that occur in parental involvement or ILAs when immigrant parents of a limited educational background participate in an adult education program. The principal method of data collection was key informant interviews (Gall, Borg, & Gall, 1996). Other methods of data collection included observations of parent-child interactions and field observations. Data analysis methods included Memo-ing (Miles & Huberman, 1994), within case analysis and cross-case analysis. Findings demonstrate that changes occurred in the parent-child relationship when mothers of a limited educational background participated in an adult literacy course. When participating in ILAs or English literacy activities related to second language acquisition (including reading and speaking for comprehension and pronunciation), the children of these mothers took on the role of the adult. Participation in literacy activities was often initiated by the child and the children were frequently concerned with their mother‟s literacy acquisition. Mothers reported that their children were more confident, worked harder on school related activities and were more open to communication. It can be concluded from this study that, in the case of these immigrant families, a mother‟s participation in adult literacy classes is influential in the relationship between mother and child. These children participated in ILAs for the benefit of their mothers and initiated literacy activities more frequently. The children responded better to their parents during literacy activities because there was a positive change in the relationship between mother and child. The relationship between mother and child appeared to be strengthened by greater trust, a sense of pride and more communication.
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OLIVEIRA, RODRIGO SANTOS PINTO DE. "LIE IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF PLATO S LESSER HÍPPIAS, HOMER S ILIAD AND SOPHOCLES PHILOCTETES: AS TRUE AND SIMPLE, AND ODYSSEUS, MULTIFACETED AND FALSE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2018. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=35900@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>Tendo como princípio a inquietação causada pelo questionamento de Sócrates no Hípias Menor de Platão (363a-364c): Qual personagem, entre Aquiles e Odisseu, seria superior? A presente dissertação leva em consideração o direcionamento do diálogo acerca do que seja a mentira segundo a ótica platônica, e dedica-se especificamente a descobrir quem destes poderia ser compreendido como um mentiroso: entre Aquiles e Odisseu, quem estaria mentindo? Primeiramente a pesquisa deseja averiguar as definições que sejam provenientes do diálogo platônico, para em seguida retornar para a cena da epopeia homérica em que seja possível definir para qual herói caberia a alcunha de mentiroso. Abalizado pelos critérios extraídos do diálogo entre Sócrates e Hípias, a busca pela cena que atenda às definições necessárias para a mentira se direciona às tragédias, onde o Filoctetes de Sófocles se sobressai entre as demais remanescentes, por atender aos critérios e nos permitir examinar a mentira de modo a justapor definições e critérios à cena que melhor exemplifica o caso. Em suma, metodologicamente tenta-se conjecturar para além do que se vê no diálogo Hípias Menor, buscando exemplo mais oportuno do que aquele dado pelo sofista a Sócrates, contudo, sem deixar de atentar para os argumentos e definições expostas, deseja-se chegar mais próximo de uma compreensão menos aporética deste diálogo, lançando mão do exemplo como um recurso didático que pode ajudar concomitantemente na compreensão do que seja a mentira, ao mesmo passo que se observe quem seja um mentiroso.<br>Taking as a principle the uneasiness caused by Socrates questioning in Plato s Hippias Minor (363a-364c): which character, between Achilles and Odysseus, would be superior? This dissertation takes into account the direction of the dialogue about the lie according to the Platonic perspective, and is dedicated specifically to discover who could be understood as a liar: between Achilles and Odysseus, who would be lying? First, the research wants to ascertain the definitions that come from the Platonic dialogue, and then return to the scene of the Homeric epic where is possible to define which hero would be named as the liar. By the assignments taken as criteria drawn from the dialogue between Socrates and Hippias, the search for the scene that meets the necessary definitions for the lie is targeted to the tragedies, where the Sophocle s Philoctetes excels among the plays remaining fully, to revel the criteria and allowing us to examine the lie in order to juxtapose definitions and criteria to the scene that best exemplifies the case. In sum, this dissertation tries methodologically to conjecture for beyond what is seen in Hippias Minor, seeking a more opportune example than that given by the Sophist to Socrates, yet without neglecting the arguments and definitions set forth, it is desired to get closer to a complete understanding of this dialogue, using example as a didactic resource that can help concomitantly in the understanding of what is the lie, at the same time as observing who could be a liar.
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Bartley, Christina Marie. "Calasiris the Pseudo-Greek Hero: Odyssean Allusions in Heliodorus' Aethiopica." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41921.
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This thesis seeks to analyze the Homeric allusions in the Aethiopica with an inclusive definition to explore Heliodorus’ authorial motives. To approach this project, I use textual analysis to avoid arguments rooted in assumptions of the historical context of the novel, about which we know almost nothing. I explore how links to Homer’s Odyssey are visible within the structural organization of the text and the content of the text. I also explore how the content of the novel reproduces actions and compatible settings of Odyssean characters, which therefore qualifies Heliodorus’ characters in a metaliterary commentary with Homer’s archaic epic poem. The division of Odyssean actions and traits depicted in Heliodorus’ characters introduce a new addition to the heroic legacy established by Homer and distances the hero from Greek identity. I conclude that Heliodorus’ adherences to epic conventions and departures thereof inform the subtextual commentaries conveyed in the Aethiopica.
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Kisieliute, Ieva. "This war will never be forgotten : A study of intertextual relations between Homer's Iliad and Wolfgang Petersen's Troy." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för genus, kultur och historia, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-3169.
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In 2004 Troy was released in movie theatres worldwide and almost immediately sparked up discussions on film’s relation to the ancient epic of Homer. The main purpose of this paper is to see the connection between Troy and Homer’s The Iliad – motion pictures’ only officially credited source of inspiration. By using comparative method and intertextual approach I try to see how a literary piece, for centuries recited and cherished by the highest academic circles is remodelled to fit the taste of a mass public. How The Iliad mutates to be a marketable product. I discuss the changes of the plot that were introduced in Troy and try to see those changes as an outcome of mutation process. Apart from the plot, the notion of a hero is also discussed: how the definition of hero changed through time? To illustrate the changes, two main heroes – Achilles and Hector are discussed, yet again using the comparative method. By approaching Troy and The Iliad as two separate cultural products (I did not view Troy as a documentary on The Iliad) I was able to connect them. I could see that the essence of the literary work and the film appears to be the same. It shows that the ancient Greek values, especially those, related to warfare and heroism, have definitely survived long enough to penetrate the modern thought.
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Hernandes, Thárea Raizza. "Homens e deuses na Ilíada : ação e responsabilidade no mundo homérico /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93857.
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Orientador: Fernando Brandão dos Santos<br>Banca: Anise de Abreu Gonçalves D'Orange Ferreira<br>Banca: Marisa Giannecchini Gonçalves de Souza<br>Resumo: Este trabalho analisa a relação entre o humano e o divino no âmbito das ações realizadas pelos homens e a responsabilidade que eles teriam ou não sobre elas, na Ilíada. Para tanto, verifica a concepção de homem em Homero, buscando mostrar o homem como unidade capaz de realizar ações e analisa a concepção divina associada às ideias de vontade de Zeus e de Destino, que afetariam a noção de responsabilidade na ação humana. Portanto, desejamos mostrar que as decisões próprias do homem não alteram o curso dos acontecimentos, uma vez que, na Ilíada, deparamos com a mentalidade mítica na qual divindade e homem se completam através de oposições<br>Abstract: This study analyzes the relationship between the human and the divine in the context of the actions carried out by men, and the responsibility that they would have on them or not, in the Iliad. To do so, it verifies the conception of man in Homer, trying to show the man as a unit capable of performing actions and analyzes the divine conception associated with the ideas of will of Zeus and Destiny, which would affect the notion of responsibility in the human action. Therefore, we wish to show that the man's own decisions do not change the sequences of events, once, in the Iliad, we faced with the mythical mentality in which divinity and man complete each other through opposition<br>Mestre
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Barreca, Francesca. "Le belle infedeli : l'Iliade in versi e in prosa dell'abate Melchiorre Cesarotti." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=68070.
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The following work consists of a careful analysis of the translation of the Iliad by Homer prepared by Melchiorre Cesarotti. Caught amidst the dilemma of loyalty to the original and the beauty of translation, Cesarotti decided to compose two versions: one in blank verses and the other in prose. This work is therefore none other than a comparison between Cesarotti's version in poetry and the version in prose.<br>The first part deals briefly with a few details on the criticism that Cesarotti's work raised.<br>The second part consists of the comparison work, which is subdivided in "Canti" (as Cesarotti's version in poetry) because the work proposes to compare the version in poetry to the version in prose and not vice-versa.<br>The last part examines the artistic value of Cesarotti's translations and the place they occupy in Europe in the eighteenth century.
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Ignatius, Henni. "Den (o)synliga Briseis : En komparativ litteraturanalys av relationen mellan Akilles, Patroklos och Briseis i Homeros Iliaden och Pat Barkers The Silence of the Girls." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-39991.
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The (in)visible Briseis. A comparative literary analysis of the relationship between Achilles, Patroclus and Briseis in Homer’s Iliad and Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls The purpose of this essay is to compare the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus in Homer’s Iliad (700s BC) and Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls (2019), while also looking into the role of Briseis and how the story differs when it is told from her point of view. Through the analysis I find that the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus have always been intense. I argue, however, that the intensity is given more depth and meaning when described from different perspectives, such as that of Briseis and Achilles himself, as is done in The Silence of the Girls. With the help of Kevin Goddard’s theory of the male gaze, the perspective of both Briseis and Achilles become invaluable for interpreting the relationship between the characters, as well as the characters themselves. For Achilles, the gaze of his mother influences him in a negative way in his relationship with Briseis, while the gaze of Patroclus causes changes in his mentality. I argue that this has to do with the Oedipus complex. For once, Briseis is not invisible and even though she continues to be the slave everyone expects her to be, she is, through the gaze, able to create her own story once that of Achilles ends. It is still the story of the great Achilles, but one in which he is also human.
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Coutier, Élodie. "Partages de l’Iliade dans le roman occidental contemporain." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL108.
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Dans le contexte d’une mise en question sans cesse renouvelée des hiérarchies sociales et culturelles dans les sociétés occidentales contemporaines, dont rend compte le développement des études culturelles depuis les années 1960, la publication d’un grand nombre de réécritures romanesques de l’Iliade témoigne d’un mouvement réflexif de la littérature vis-à-vis de sa propre histoire. En observant les tensions dynamiques à l’œuvre dans la rencontre du roman et du discours épique, ce travail de thèse entend proposer une approche du champ littéraire qui ne soit pas fondée sur la division de ce dernier entre culture artistique et culture à destination du grand public, mais conçue sous l’angle d’un partage transmédiatique et transculturel. L’analyse des réécritures romanesques de l’Iliade révèle en effet une convergence des procédés et des discours de part et d’autre du « grand partage » littéraire, au service d’une réflexion commune sur le caractère problématique du canon littéraire. La confrontation des discours épique et romanesque contribue à l’élaboration d’une pensée démocratique de la société, qui repose sur la construction d’un espace narratif traversé par une pluralité de discours génériques et de références culturelles<br>Challenging the social and cultural hierarchies which are still authoritative in our contemporary Western societies has been a long-lasting concern of Cultural Studies ever since their development in the 1960s. As evidenced by the great amount of novels set in the fictional world of the Trojan War, which prove themselves to be genuine rewritings of the Iliad narrative, the Western canon and its relevance are equally scrutinized by contemporary novelists. By studying the dynamic conflicts which underlie the encounter between epic discourse and the genre of the novel, this dissertation intends to dispute the concept of a “Great Divide” between artistic and popular culture, and to prove that literature is a transcultural medium. A close study of a few contemporary novelisations of the Iliad brings to light existing shared narrative techniques and discourses undermining the legitimacy of the Western canon. Through the remodeling of the epic genre and its conventions, the novel assumes a democratic approach to society which stems from a narrative architecture hinging on a multiplicity of generic discourses and cultural references
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Sweet, Formiatti Fiona. "Narratorial apostrophes of character in Homer's Iliad." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151729.
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From Aristotle onwards, the Homeric narrator has been praised for the restrained way in which he provides commentary to his audience. But there are occasions when the poet-narrator intrudes overtly as when he makes a direct address to - or apostrophe of - one of the characters in the epic. Scholars have advanced various hypotheses to explain the function and effect of narratorial apostrophe in Homer. This study aims to determine whether one evaluation is valid for all narratorial apostrophes of character in the Iliad. I test the current evaluations of these apostrophes in three case studies. According to the character-based evaluation, the Homeric narrator uses apostrophe to model sympathy and pity for a character to elicit a similar emotional response in the audience. According to the structure-based evaluation, apostrophes mark critical turning points in the story. Most scholarship has focussed on the recipients of multiple apostrophes, Menelaos and Patroklos, but I pay equal attention to a third group of apparently miscellaneous apostrophes. My approach relies on a close reading of each apostrophe in its event-sequence, and I draw on elements of structural narratology and Labov and Waletzky's model of the components of narrative. I also examine the synergy between apostrophes and other forms of narratorial intrusion. Although the contribution of the character-based approach to our understanding of Homeric apostrophe in the Iliad is well-recognized, I propose that it is limited in scope. I demonstrate the new insights that are offered by a structure-based interpretation in which the apostrophes of character are examined against Labov and Waletzky's model. What emerges are the different yet complementary insights afforded by a close reading of the apostrophic event-sequences, and an appreciation of the rewarding synergy that can be observed in the poet-narrator's character-based and structure-based strategies.
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Roreitner, Robert. "Trojské osudy (τυγχάνω a τεύχω v nejstarším řeckém eposu)". Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-337601.
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The aim of this study is to introduce the idea of fate present in Homer's Iliad. By "idea" is meant what gives the unity to apparently incoherent views (1) of fate as death and life's content; (2) of fate as a given lot and a power; (3) of fate as what is shaped by men, and what meets them. This triple polarity of meaning is explored on two levels: (a) the level of construction of the epic (how the fates are represented in the poem) and (b) the level of the Homeric expressions for fate (how the characters and the narrator talk about it). Both subjects have been treated many times and from various perspectives in the existing secondary literature. That's why this study does in neither case aim at an exhausting analysis. As for the construction of the epic, it focuses on the role played in its structure by decision, and especially on how the various decisions of different characters are integrated into the unity of narration. Among the expressions that are standardly envisaged it treats in some detail only the two most important, i.e. μοῖρα and αἶσα, although at the same time it considers also two verbs, τεύχω and τυγχάνω , to which the due attention has not yet been paid. Exploiting the results of formal-literary studies of the last decades this study returns back to a question formulated in the...
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Briggs, Elizabeth Anne. "The parent-child relationship and the Homeric hero in the Iliad and Odyssey." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2820.
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This dissertation examines the depiction of the parent-child relationship in the Iliad and the Odyssey. In this examination, I focus on the representation of this phenomenon as it applies to Achilles and Hector, as the respective protagonist and antagonist of the former poem, and to Odysseus, the protagonist of the latter. The parent-child relationship has been selected as the subject of investigation on the grounds of the fundamental nature and extensive presence of this phenomenon in human life, and, consequently, in literature. The primary reason for the selection of the Iliad and the Odyssey for this study of the literary representation of this phenomenon is the status that these poems enjoy as the earliest extant works in Western literature, whose reputation and influence have endured through the centuries to modern times. The other reason is that they provide a rich source of the literary representation of the parent-child relationship. The inclusion of both Homeric poems in the investigation offers a broader spectrum of parent-child relationships and a wider range of parent-child related situations, issues, and outcomes. In each poem, the poet concentrates on the biological parent-child relationships of the heroes, although other supplementary relationships also feature. Assisted by narratological analysis, I examine the three heroes’ parent-child relationships in terms of their triadic structure of father-mother-son, and of the dyadic relationships encompassed by this triad, namely, father-son, mother-son, and father/husband-mother/wife. Each hero is depicted as both a son and a father; hence the triads to be examined are, for Achilles, the Peleus-Thetis-Achilles natal triad and the Achilles-[Deidamia]-Neoptolemus procreative triad (represented in the poem only by the father-son relationship), for Hector, the Priam-Hecuba-Hector natal triad and the Hector-Andromache-Astyanax procreative triad, and for Odysseus, the Laertes-Anticleia-Odysseus natal triad and the Odysseus-Penelope-Telemachus procreative triad. A significant feature to emerge from the examination of each of these triads and associated dyads is the poet’s use of the affective dimension of the parent-child relationship to make the epic hero more accessible, and the epic situations and events more meaningful to the audience. In addition to exploiting the universal appeal of the affective dimension, the examination of the representation of this relationship in the poems provides insights into socio-culturally determined aspects of the society depicted. On the structural thematic level the parent-child relationships of Achilles and Hector in the Iliad, and of Odysseus in the Odyssey provide a thematic thread woven into the central theme of each poem. Thus we see that these heroic epics tell stories that are not only about heroic warriors, but also about the other participants in their natal and procreative triads: their parents, wives, and sons.<br>Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, 2010.
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Lovell, Christopher. "The overburdened Earth : landscape and geography in Homeric epic." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4304.
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This dissertation argues that Homer's Iliad depicts the Trojan landscape as participant in or even victim of the Trojan War. This representation alludes to extra-Homeric accounts of the origins of the Trojan War in which Zeus plans the war to relieve the earth of the burden of human overpopulation. In these myths, overpopulation is the result of struggle among the gods for divine kingship. Through this allusion, the Iliad places itself within a framework of theogonic myth, depicting the Trojan War as an essential step in separating the world of gods and the world of men, and making Zeus’ position as the father of gods and men stable and secure.
The Introduction covers the mythological background to which the Iliad alludes through an examination of extra-Homeric accounts of the Trojan War’s origins. Chapter One analyzes a pair of similes at Iliad 2.780-85 that compare the Akhaian army to Typhoeus, suggesting that the Trojan War is a conflict similar to Typhoeus’ attempt to usurp Zeus’ position as king of gods and men. Chapter Two demonstrates how Trojan characters are closely linked with the landscape in the poem’s first extended battle scene (4.422-6.35); the deaths of these men are a symbolic killing of the land they defend. Chapter Three discusses the aristeia of Diomedes in Book 5, where his confrontations with Aphrodite, Ares, and Apollo illustrate the heroic tendency to disrespect the status difference between gods and men. Athena’s authorization of Diomedes’ actions reveals the existence of strife among the Olympian gods, which threatens to destabilize the divine hierarchy. Chapter Four examines the Akhaian wall whose eventual destruction is recounted at the beginning of Book 12. The wall symbolizes human impiety and its destruction is a figurative fulfillment of Zeus’ plan to relieve the earth of the burden of unruly humanity. Finally, Chapter Five treats the flußkampf and Theomachy of Books 20 and 21, episodes adapting scenes of divine combat typically associated with the struggle for divine kingship. In the Iliad, these scenes show that Zeus’ power is unassailable.<br>text
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Goussias, Giannoula. "Heroes and heroic life in the Iliad and Akritic folk-song." Thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/115948.
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Tosa, Dygo Leo. "Approaches to the performance of the Odyssey." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1927.
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This report examines different approaches to the performance of the Odyssey. The first approach focuses on the internal evidence of the Odyssey, looking at how the Homer’s poems define the singer as a type. The second approach analyzes a selection of sources from the classical period that attests to the performance of the Odyssey. The third approach uses material evidence as a means to reconstruct the music of performance. The internal evidence provides a consistent model for performance that can be correlated with external context. This model can then be used to show how the Odyssey makes use of its own performance. These approaches demonstrate that the material of the poem provides the most compelling account of performance of the Odyssey. The Odyssey presents a consistent model of performance that describes the performer, the manner of performance, and makes use of performance in its own poetry.<br>text
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Moritz, Patrick James. "‘A lightness that is both new and a return’: Nekyia and katabasis in twenty-first century receptions of the Iliad." Thesis, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2440/132692.
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In the Homeric epics, interactions with the dead occur in two ways: nekyia, a conversation with the shades of the dead, and katabasis, a physical descent or journey to the underworld. In this thesis, I examine how Madeline Miller’s novel The Song of Achilles (2011), David Malouf’s novel Ransom (2009), and Alice Oswald’s poem Memorial (2011) engage with the Iliad’s representations of death. I argue that through their reception and adaptation of nekyia and katabasis, these three authors highlight new and contemporary perspectives on the events and themes of the Iliad. Madeline Miller structures The Song of Achilles as an extended version of Patroclus’ tale of his and Achilles’ childhood that he tells in the nekyia of Iliad 23. I examine how the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus has previously been interpreted and argue that the novel focuses on the development of a romantic and sexual relationship between the two characters, bringing a mostly positive portrayal of queer love into the reception of the Iliad. While Miller expands upon the plot of the Iliad, in Ransom, Malouf focuses on the epic’s twenty-fourth and final book to examine a ‘primary interest … in storytelling itself’ (Malouf 223). I argue that similarly to Homer, Malouf presents Priam’s journey to Achilles’ camp as a symbolic katabasis. In doing so, he offers two major interventions in the reception of Homer: his focus on his characters’ emotions and psychology as they conduct the ransom, and his creation of the character Somax, a simple carter who accompanies Priam on his journey to Achilles’ camp. These new elements and Malouf’s focus on the “newness” of the ransom to his characters reinvigorates the story from the Iliad. By Oswald’s own estimation, in Memorial, she dismisses ‘seven-eighths’ of the Iliad to create a new poem consisting of three elements: the names of those soldiers whose deaths are narrated in the epic, short biographies of those soldiers, and numerous Homeric similes that she applies to new circumstances (Oswald 2). I argue that the entire poem functions as a katabasis with the narrator acting as a Sibylesque guide, reflecting the long history of Homeric reception through Virgil and others. In the ‘oral cemetery’ that is Memorial (Oswald 2), Oswald treats all of the dead as equals and thus reinvigorates the Iliad through her remembrance of the common man. I position these analyses within an ongoing debate in Classical reception studies between aesthetics and cultural history. Drawing particularly on the works of Charles Martindale and Simon Goldhill, I advocate for a Classical reception studies that embraces the multi-faceted nature of the word ‘reception’, aiming to strike a balance between the contemporary and historical influences of the works I study. In the conclusion, I consider how the Iliad is itself retrospectively affected by the works I discuss, suggesting that the epic’s continuing importance is made possible by its rebirth in each of these receptions.<br>Thesis (MPhil) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2021
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Gális, Martin. "Mycenae, Troy and Anatolia: Mycenaean names in Hittite documents, and Anatolian names in the Homeric Iliad." Master's thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-369776.
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(in English): The aim of the present work is to offer an up-to-date synopsis based on historical data and textual evidence that would give a coherent description of the long-discussed question of the mutual relations between the Hittite (or Anatolian) and the Greek world in the period of the Late Bronze Age. In order to do so, various data from different scientific fields were put together. After a brief introduction to onomastics and the history of the Greco-Anatolian studies follows the main part of the work which deals with probably mutually borrowed anthropo- and toponyms in these languages from both a diachronic and synchronic point of view.
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Faia, Tatiana. "Back across the barrier of the teeth : studies on homeric characters : the Iliad." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/20504.
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Tese de doutoramento, Estudos Clássicos (Literatura Grega), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, 2015<br>This dissertation comprises a series of studies on the characterisation of a set of figures in Homer’s Iliad. Focusing particularly on a number of conventional processes through which it operates, I take them as critical categories to examine the terms in which caracterisation’s main effect, individuation, is reached. The characters at the core of my discussion are Akhilleus, Andromakhē, Briseïs, Hektor, Helen, Paris and Patroklos. Each chapter functions as a commentary with a particular focus on questions which have emerged as particularly relevant to discuss their characterisation.
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Power, Michael O'Neill. "Transportation and Homeric Epic." Phd thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/45746.
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This thesis investigates the impact of transportation — the phenomenon of “being miles away” while receiving a narrative — on audience response. The poetics of narrative reception within the Homeric epics are described and the correspondences with the psychological concept of transportation are used to suggest the appropriateness and utility of this theory to understanding audience responses in and to the Iliad and Odyssey. The ways in which transportation complements and extends some concepts of narrative reception familiar to Homeric studies (the Epic Illusion, Vividness, and Enchantment) are considered, as are the ways in which the psychological theories might be adjusted to accommodate Homeric epic. A major claim is drawn from these theories that transportation fundamentally affects the audience’s interpretation of and responses to the narrative; this claim is tested both theoretically and empirically in terms of ambiguous characterization of Odysseus and the Kyklōps Polyphēmos in the ninth book of the Odyssey. Last, some consideration is given to the ways in which the theory (and its underlying empirical research) might be extended.
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Mirończuk, Andrzej. "Odkrywając odkryte." Doctoral thesis, 2021. https://depotuw.ceon.pl/handle/item/3878.
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