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| Title: | Entha kai entha: spatial metaphors of mental conflict |
| Authors: | Livingston, James Graham |
| Supervisor(s): | Cairns, D.L. |
| Issue Date: | 2010 |
| Publisher: | The University of Edinburgh |
| Abstract: | This thesis takes as its starting point the sunbeam simile used of Medea in
Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica (3.755-60). Chapter One examines the simile in
detail, arguing for a textual transposition that establishes it as a piece of
psychological imagery in which the formula entha kai entha functions as a spatial
metaphor of mental vacillation. Chapter Two surveys the use of the formula in
Apollonius and Homer and then discusses two passages from the Odyssey, which,
owing to multiple correspondences, are argued to be intertextual literary precedents
for the Apollonian scene. Chapter Three then expands the scope from the formula to
the rest of the simile, and shows how the chosen excerpt is a paradigm of Apollonian
use and innovation of Homer. |
| Keywords: | Apollonius
mental conflict
metaphor |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4490 |
| Appears in Collections: | History and Classics PhD thesis collection
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