This is the first study to examine desire in the Iliad in a comprehensive way, and to explain its relationship to the epic's narrative structure and audience re

This is the first study to examine desire in the Iliad in a comprehensive way, and to explain its relationship to the epic's narrative structure and audience re

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ABSTRACT Listening for the Plot: The Role of Desire in the Iliad's Narrative by Rachel Hart Lesser Doctor of Philosophy in Classics and the Designated Emphasis

Argues that Homer, the poet of the Iliad, may be fully distinguished from the narrator of Homeric poetry