Homeric Durability: Telling Time In The Iliad (Hellenic Studies Series),Used
Homeric Durability: Telling Time In The Iliad (Hellenic Studies Series),Used
Homeric Durability: Telling Time In The Iliad (Hellenic Studies Series),Used

Homeric Durability: Telling Time In The Iliad (Hellenic Studies Series),Used

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The Iliad defines its poetic goal as preserving the kleos aphthiton, fame unwithered, (IX.413) of its hero, Achilles. But how are we to understand the status of the unwithered in the Iliad?In Homeric Durability, Lorenzo F. Garcia, Jr., investigates the concept of time and temporality in Homeric epic by studying the semantics of durability and decay: namely, the ability of an entity to withstand the effects of time, and its eventual disintegration. Such objectsthe ships of the Achaeans, the bodies of the dead, the walls of the Greeks and Trojans, and the tombs of the deadall exist within time and possess a demonstrable durability. Even the gods themselves are temporal beings. Through a framework informed by phenomenology, psychology, and psychopathology, Garcia examines the temporal experience of Homers gods and argues that in moments of pain, sorrow, and shame, Homeric gods come to experience human temporality. If the gods themselves are defined by human temporal experience, Garcia argues, the epic tradition cannot but imagine its own temporal durability as limited: hence, one should understand kleos aphthiton as fame which has not yet decayed, rather than fame which will not decay.

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