Windy Words in Penelope's Joking Dream: Odyssey 4.787-841.

The author examines the interpretation of an apparition's response to Penelope's second question in a dream in "Windy Words in Penelope's Joking Dream: Odyssey 4.787-841." He claims that the response is an example of a multilayered metapoetic wordplay, or a pun, which in ancient Greek times was used...

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Published in:	Helios Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 1 - 25
Main Author:	TURKELTAUB, DANIEL
Format:	Article
Published:	Texas Tech University Press Spring2014
Subjects:	Odyssey of Homer Plays on words Rhetoric Wit & humor Greek literature Vocabulary
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost