Zeus and Trojan advantage: traces of elaborations of the tradition in the Iliad

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  • Pietro Verzina Università degli Studi di Salerno

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2015

Keywords:

Neoanalysis, Zeus’ plan, Cypria

Abstract


Following a theoretical model, this article assumes that the poet of the Iliad is aware of the potential inconsistency between the traditional account of the wrath and the version which he elaborates, and shows how the poem manages both according to its expressive and structural purposes.

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2015-12-30

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Verzina, P. (2015). Zeus and Trojan advantage: traces of elaborations of the tradition in the Iliad. Emerita, 83(2), 195–219. https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2015

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