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Momos advises Zeus: Changing representations of 'Cypria' fragment 1
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This paper investigates the importance of context for assessing fragment one of the ‘Cypria’, one of the poems belonging to an ‘Epic Cycle’ that – along with the Iliad and Odyssey – told the story of the war at Troy. With the exception of the Homeric epics, these poems come down to us in pieces, in the form of mutilated quotations, assorted testimonia and a later summary by Proclus, all of which, by offering brief glimpses of a wider epic world, tend to be mined for glossing the Homeric poems...
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- Publisher:
- S.A.R.G.O.N. Editrice e Libreria
- Host title:
- Papers on Ancient Literatures: Greece, Rome and the Near East. Proceedings of the "Advanced Seminar in the Humanities": Venice International University 2004-2005
- Pages:
- 33-73
- Publication date:
- 2008-01-01
- ISBN:
- 9788895672045
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- English
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- ora:2778
- Deposit date:
- 2009-05-08
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- SARGON Editrice e Libreria
- Copyright date:
- 2008
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Citation: Barker, E. T. E. (2008). Momos advises Zeus: Changing representations of 'Cypria' fragment 1. In: Cingano, E. & Milano, L. (eds.) 'Papers on Ancient Literatures: Greece, Rome and the Near East:Proceedings of the "Advanced Seminar in the Humanities", Venice International University 2004-2005, (Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità e del Vicino Oriente
-- Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, n. 4; Padova: S.A.R.G.O.N. Editrice e Libreria), pp. 33-73.
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