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Perfidy and Passion : Reintroducing the Iliad /

"Homer's Iliad is often considered a poem of blunt truthfulness, his characters' motivation pleasingly simple. A closer look, however, reveals a complex interplay of characters who engage in an awful lot of lies. Beginning with Achilles, who hatches a secret plot to destroy his own pe...

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Autor principal: Buchan, Mark, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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