Homeric Durability. Telling Time in the Iliad (Hellenic Studies, volume 57).

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - very good condition -The Iliad defines its poetic goal as preserving the kleos aphthiton �fame unwithered� of its hero, Achilles. But how are we to understand the status of the �unwithered� in the Iliadt? In Homeric Durability, Lorenzo E Garcia Jr. investigates the concept of time and temporality in Hom'eric epic by studying the semantics of�durability� and �decay�: namely, a body's ability to withstand the effects of time, and its eventual disintegration. These objects�the ships of the Achaeans, the bodies of the dead, the walls of the Greeks and Trojans, and the tombs of the dead�all exist within time and possess a demonstrable �durability.� Even the gods themselves are temporal beings. Through a framework informed by phenomenology, psychology, and psychopathology, Garcia Jr. examines the temporal experience of Homer's gods and argues that in moments of pain, sorrow, and shame, Homeric gods come to experience human temporality. II the gods themselves are defined by human temporal experience, Garcia Jr. argues, the epic tradition canpot but imagine its own temporal durability as limited: hence, one should understand kleos aphthiton as fame which has not yet decayed, rather than fame which will never decay. - Homeric Durability: Time and Poetics in Homer�s Iliad -- Decay, Disintegration, and Objectified Time: The Rhetoric of Time and Memory -- Men and Worms: Permanence and Organic Decay -- Permanance and Non-Organic Structures: Walls in the Iliad --Memorials, Tombs, and the [.] -- The (Im)Permanence of Mortuary Architecture in the Iliad -- The Impermanence of the Permanent: The Death of the Gods? ISBN 9780674073234