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- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Epic
- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Epic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Epic Engagements
- Part II Epic Space
- 4 Space and Story
- 5 Do Not Talk Death to Me
- 6 Epic Dislocation
- 7 Shrunken Epic
- Part III Epic Time
- Part IV Epic People
- Part V Epic Feelings
- Part VI Epic Without End
- Epilogue
- Timeline of Ancient Greek Epic
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
- Cambridge Companions To Literature
4 - Space and Story
The Iliad and the Odyssey
from Part II - Epic Space
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 December 2024
- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Epic
- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Epic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Epic Engagements
- Part II Epic Space
- 4 Space and Story
- 5 Do Not Talk Death to Me
- 6 Epic Dislocation
- 7 Shrunken Epic
- Part III Epic Time
- Part IV Epic People
- Part V Epic Feelings
- Part VI Epic Without End
- Epilogue
- Timeline of Ancient Greek Epic
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
- Cambridge Companions To Literature
Summary
This chapter analyses the presentation of space in relation to the story narrated in the two Homeric epics. Tsagalis’ study is divided into two parts: in the first, he explores simple story space, i.e. how the narrator views the space in which the plot is unravelled in both the Iliad and the Odyssey. In the second part, he treats embedded story space, i.e. the way characters, functioning as thinking agents with stored experiences, perceive what is taking place in the story-world. The structure of this chapter locates and highlights for the readers the similarities and differences between the Iliad and the Odyssey with respect to these two categories of space and suggests the ways in which these categories could be taken up and manipulated by later proponents of the genre.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Epic , pp. 81 - 103Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024