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Homer's Divine Audience: The Iliad's Reception on Mount Olympus
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Homer’s Divine Audience: The Iliad’s Reception on Mount Olympus

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The gods of Homer’s Iliad have troubled readers for millennia, with many features of their presentation seeming to defy satisfactory explanation. Homer’s Divine Audience presents and explores a new ‘metaperformative’ approach to scenes of divine viewing, counsel, and intervention in the Iliad, arguing that the poet uses the Olympian gods to model and thereby manipulate the ongoing dynamics of performance and live reception.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Date
1 July 2019
Pages
246
ISBN
9780198842354

The gods of Homer’s Iliad have troubled readers for millennia, with many features of their presentation seeming to defy satisfactory explanation. Homer’s Divine Audience presents and explores a new ‘metaperformative’ approach to scenes of divine viewing, counsel, and intervention in the Iliad, arguing that the poet uses the Olympian gods to model and thereby manipulate the ongoing dynamics of performance and live reception.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Date
1 July 2019
Pages
246
ISBN
9780198842354