Divine Liars: Gods and Their Falsehoods in the Homeric Hymns.
This paper examines examples of lies performed by gods in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes , and demonstrates how these false assertions illustrate each god's power and essential nature. This analysis uses speech act theory and theories of lying to demonstrate that not al...
| Published in: | Classical Philology Vol. 119; no. 1; pp. 111 - 123 |
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University of Chicago Press
2023
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