TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pucci,Pietro
TI  - The Iliad – the Poem of Zeus
T2  - Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ,
SN  - 9783110601374
AV  - PA4037 .P83 2018
U1  - 883/.0109 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Epic poetry, Greek
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Iliad
KW  - Zeus
KW  - destiny
KW  -  heroism
KW  -  myth
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 --; Chapter 2 --; Chapter 3 --; Chapter 4 --; Chapter 5 --; Chapter 6 --; Appendix 1. δῖος Ἀχιλλεύς. The Notion of Divine as Applied to the Heroes --; Appendix 2. The Muses and the Poet --; Bibliography --; Index of Rhetorical and Critical Notions --; Index Locorum; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The scholarly tendency has too often weakened the conspicuous novelty and originality that characterizes Zeus in the Iliad. This book remedies that tendency and depicts the extraordinary figure of Zeus: lord (or impersonation) of lightning and thunders, exclusive master of human destiny --and therefore of human history—and chief of Olympus. This unique personality endowed with polyvalent powers represents itself the conflict between superhuman moral indifference for mortal destiny and anthropomorphic feelings for human beings: he both preordains the death of his son and weeps on his demise. Zeus embodies the Mysterium tremendum. This new Zeus cannot glance at the past image that the tradition painted of him without smiling at its simplicity and disrespect: a parodic or amusing tone surrounds him as he refers or is referred to aspects of his traditional image. The great characters of the Poem give two wise responses to Zeus, lord of destiny: "heroic death" or serene acceptance. We, the readers, are expected to react in the same way
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110602456
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110602456
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110602456/original
ER  -