Athena and the Paphlagonian in Aristophanes' Knights. Re-considering Equites 1090-5, 1172-81.
This paper re-examines the treatment of Athena in some passages of Aristophanes' Knights along the lines of a previous study by C.A. Anderson (1991 and 1995). Two topics will be considered: the dream-oracles of Athena (Eq. 1090-5), and some epithets characterizing the goddess during the food-serving...
| Publicado en: | Mnemosyne Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 75 - 95 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2006
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