Free Download The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis By Andrew Sprague Becker
1995 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0847679977 | PDF | 43 MB
This text explores how Homeric poetry shapes its own reception: how Homer's reaction to a visual image creates his audience's response to a literary description. It also debates the modernist, self-conscious elements of Homeric narrative. All Greek passages are translated.