There is a companion website that visualizes this for various passages. I will certainly be using this in future courses I teach as a very useful tool.Critical to our understanding of the Iliad’s action is the realization that its orientation of right and left remains constant throughout and is always seen from the perspective of a narrator situated in the center of the Greek camp facing the Trojan plain. (p.45)
5.03.2012
Homer's Trojan Theater
I wish Jenny Strauss Clay's Homer's Trojan Theater had come about earlier in my graduate career, at least before I taught my Greek course on Homer. The argument is as follows:
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