Homer and the poetics of gesture / Alex C. Purves.

"This book offers five readings of the Homeric poems through five different postures, actions, or gestures: falling, running, leaping, standing, and reaching. It argues for a connection between formularity and embodiment in Homeric epic by tracing, in each chapter, the story of a particular ges...

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Main Author: Purves, Alex C., 1972- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Series:Oxford studies in late antiquity.
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