The Politics of Position: Localization and Disruption in the Homeric Hexameter.
This paper argues for a politics of position within Homeric verse by exploring the ways in which names struggle to occupy the end of the line and so the more important position within the social order. Accounts of localization tend to present metrical position in Homer as unideological and apolitica...
| Publicado en: | Classical Philology Vol. 120; no. 2; pp. 157 - 180 |
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University of Chicago Press
Apr2025
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