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The Portrait Of Homer In Strabo's Geography, Lawrence Kim
The Portrait Of Homer In Strabo's Geography, Lawrence Kim
Lawrence Kim
Strabo’s Geography, as anyone who has perused it will know, is suffused with a profound, nearly obsessive, interest in Homer. The desire to demonstrate Homer’s knowledge of geographical information at every turn (even where it seems prima facie unlikely) is matched only by the determination with which Strabo “solves” notorious problems of Homeric geography such as the location of Nestor’s Pylos or the identity of the “Ethiopians divided in twain” visited by Poseidon. Strabo’s concentration on such arcana, often to the exclusion of more properly “geographical” material, has understandably exasperated many modern readers with different ideas about what constitutes …
Poetry, Extravagance, And The Invention Of The 'Archaic' In Plutarch's De Pythiae Oraculis, Lawrence Kim
Poetry, Extravagance, And The Invention Of The 'Archaic' In Plutarch's De Pythiae Oraculis, Lawrence Kim
Lawrence Kim
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