Creatures of Speech Lion, Herding, and Hunting Similes in the Iliad

by Steven H. Lonsdale (With)

Overview

This monograph has its origins in a Cambridge Ph. D. dissertation di- rected by Geoffrey S. Kirk and Patricia E. Easterling, and examined by Nicholas J. Richardson and Frank H. Stubbings. The body of the work has since been revised, and the Introduction and the first two and last chapters have been added. A grant from the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Davidson College enabled me to prepare a camera- ready copy with the secretarial assistance of Cheryl Branz and the expert advice of John Heil in the Philosophy Department. I want to extend appre- ciation to my colleagues in the Department of Classical Studies, Dirk French and Michael K. Toumazou, for reading portions of the manuscript. It is a special pleasure to record my long-standing debt to Pat Easter- ling for maieutic gifts so freely bestowed then and now. To Richard Janko I must also express my deep gratitude for his continuing encouragement and for cheerful commentary on the manuscript both as a dissertation and as a monograph. Lowell Edmunds and S. Douglas Olson read and made insightful observations on the opening chapters. I am grateful to Hoyt Rogers, who, with attention to content and important detail, exercised acute editorial judgment, and in so doing helped smooth the prose. Ludwig Koe- nen's circumspect questions and criticisms have proven valuable in preparing the final version of this work. Any errors or infelicities that re- main are mine alone.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783663120025
Publisher:	Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
Publication date:	07/18/2013
Series:	Beiträge zur Altertumskunde
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
Pages:	159
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)
Language:	German
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

I Animals in the Similes.- II Animals in the Poems.- III The Beast of War: Lion Similes.- IV The Lion as Marauder of the Herds and as Hunter.- V Pursuit in Battle: Hunting Similes.- VI Pursuit and Attack: Reversals in Hunting Imagery.- VII Conclusions: Animal Imagery in the Homeric Narrative.- Appendixes.- A. A Register of Identifiable Species in the Poems.- B. A List of Emotive States Attributed to Animals.- Expressions and Words for Emotive States and Seats of Emotion Applied to Animals.- C. Formulae in Lion Similes.- Tables Showing Phraseology from Lion Similes.- Table 1: Corresponding Phrases Restricted to Lion Similes.- Table 2: Non-Restricted Repeated Lion Vocabulary.- Table 3: Lion Vocabulary Shared with Other Animals.- D. A List of Line References to Lion Similes in Homer.- Index Locorum.