Shifting Focalization in the <i>Homeric Hymn to Hermes</i>: the Case of Hermes’ Cave
<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"> <!...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Duke University
2011-03-01
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| Series: | Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies |
| Online Access: | http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/8101 |
| Summary: | <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"> <!--StartFragment--><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Baskerville; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The contradictory descriptions of Hermes’ cave reflect not multiple authorship but the poet’s successive focalization on the viewer of the moment, and they progress with the growth of Hermes’ identity as a god.</span><!--EndFragment--> </span></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> |
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| ISSN: | 0017-3916 2159-3159 |