The Choice of Achilles : the Ideology of Figure in the Epic

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Cover; CONTENTS; Introduction: Ideology and Trope in Epic Argument; PART I: THE ANCIENT EPIC; ONE. The Politics of the Simile in the Iliad; THE EPIC DISTANCE; THE TEARS OF ZEUS: POLITICS IN THE SIMILE; THE TEMPORAL STRUCTURE OF THE SIMILE; REPRESENTATION AND TROPE; τέλοϛ θανάτοιο: A DOUBLE ENDING; TWO. The Aeneid: The Power of the Figure; HEROIC IGNORANCE; STORM-TOSSED AENEAS; SYMBOLIC DISTORTION; THREE. The Figurative Economy of the Aeneid; NARRATIVE DOUBLES AND THE POLITICS OF IDYLL; SACRIFICE AND PROSOPOPOEIA; CONQUEST AND THE DIVISION OF VALUE; PART II: VERSIONS OF THE RENAISSANCE EPIC