The overburdened Earth : landscape and geography in Homeric epic
This dissertation argues that Homer's Iliad depicts the Trojan landscape as participant in or even victim of the Trojan War. This representation alludes to extra-Homeric accounts of the origins of the Trojan War in which Zeus plans the war to relieve the earth of the burden of human overpopulat...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4304 |