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2015

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The Treatment Of Women By Achilles And Agamemnon, Erica M. Cosgrove Oct 2015

The Treatment Of Women By Achilles And Agamemnon, Erica M. Cosgrove

Student Research

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Introduction To The Iliad, Erwin F. Cook May 2015

Introduction To The Iliad, Erwin F. Cook

Erwin F. Cook

Sing of rage, Goddess, that bane of Akhilleus,Peleus' son, which caused untold pain for Akhaians,sent down throngs of powerful spirits to Aides, war-chiefs rendered the prize of dogs and everysort of bird.

Edward McCrorie’s new translation of Homer’s classic epic of the Trojan War captures the falling rhythms of a doomed Troy. McCrorie presents the sundry epithets and resonant symbols of Homer's verse style and remains as close to the Greek's meaning as research allows.

The work is an epic with a flexible contemporary feel to it, capturing the wide-ranging tempos of the original. It underscores the honor of soldiers …

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The Natures Of Monsters And Heroes, Vanessa Nikolovska May 2015

The Natures Of Monsters And Heroes, Vanessa Nikolovska

The Review: A Journal of Undergraduate Student Research

Around the late eighth or early seventh century B.C., a poet, known to later ages as Homer, composed two epic poems that tell the tales of the Trojan War, The Iliad and The Odyssey. The Iliad tells the story of the rage of Achilles, the great Greek warrior, while The Odyssey tells the story of the coming home of Odysseus, the King of Ithaca, from the Trojan War. A study of both epics reveals that constructs portraying various values, such as the characteristics of heroes, have remained the same from the times of ancient Greece to the present day. …

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Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 2: Sets Of Odyssey Base Lines, Keith L. Yoder Dec 2014

Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 2: Sets Of Odyssey Base Lines, Keith L. Yoder

Keith L. Yoder

This revised chart contains a summary list of the 808 sets of duplicate line repetitions in the Odyssey of Homer that are based on an initial appearance in the Odyssey. The data is derived from my computerized analysis of text and lemmatization information contained in xml files downloaded from the WordHoard (Chicago Homer) website. My associated paper "Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 4: All Odyssey Repeated Lines" has the same information, but sorted by the 2,650 actual repetitions that appear in the Odyssey. I have also posted a similar pair of papers cataloging repetitions based on initial lines in the …

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Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 1: Sets Of Iliad Base Lines, Keith L. Yoder Dec 2014

Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 1: Sets Of Iliad Base Lines, Keith L. Yoder

Keith L. Yoder

This revised chart contains a summary list of the 1167 sets of duplicate line repetitions in the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer that are based on an initial appearance in the Iliad. The data is derived from my computerized analysis of text and lemmatization information contained in xml files downloaded from the WordHoard (Chicago Homer) website. My associated paper "Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 3: All Iliad Repeated Lines" has the same information, but sorted by the 2575 actual repetitions that appear in the Iliad. I have also posted a similar pair of papers cataloging repetitions within the Odyssey. All …

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Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 3: All Iliad Repeated Lines, Keith L. Yoder Dec 2014

Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 3: All Iliad Repeated Lines, Keith L. Yoder

Keith L. Yoder

This chart contains the same duplicate line repetition information as the associated paper "Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 1: Sets of Iliad Base Lines", but here sorted by and showing all 2,575 repeated lines in canonical order. Each line reference shows all the other repetitions in both the Iliad and Odyssey that are associated with that particular Iliad line.

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Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 4: All Odyssey Repeated Lines, Keith L. Yoder Dec 2014

Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 4: All Odyssey Repeated Lines, Keith L. Yoder

Keith L. Yoder

This chart contains the same duplicate line repetition information as the associated paper "Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 2: Sets of Odyssey Base Lines", but here sorted by and showing all 2,650 repeated lines in canonical order. Each line reference shows all the other repetitions in the Iliad and Odyssey that are associated with that particular Odyssey line.

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