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...

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Published in:	Classical Philology Vol. 120; no. 2; pp. 157 - 180
Main Author:	Ward, Matthew
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Chicago Press Apr2025
Subjects:	Practical politics Homeric civilization Social order Hexameter Metrical analysis (Poetry)
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