The Arms of Achilles and Homeric Compositional Technique, Ausgaben 36-40BRILL, 01.01.1975 - 108 Seiten In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napoleon's legions and ultimate victory. In that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates attacked British merchant shipping, the lifeblood of British defence. War polarised America. The south and west wanted land, the north wanted peace and trade. But America had to choose between the oceans and the continent. Within weeks the land invasion had stalled, but American warships and privateers did rather better, and astonished the world by besting the Royal Navy in a series of battles. Then in three titanic single ship actions the challenge was decisively met. British frigates closed with the Chesapeake, the Essex and the President, flagship of American naval ambition. Both sides found new heroes but none could equal Captain Philip Broke, champion of history's greatest frigate battle, when HMS Shannon captured the USS Chesapeake in thirteen blood-soaked minutes. Broke's victory secured British control of the Atlantic, and within a year Washington, D.C. had been taken and burnt by British troops. Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, brings all his mastery of the subject and narrative brilliance to throw new light on a war which until now has been much mythologised, little understood. |
Inhalt
Patterned Episodes and Achilles Armor | 20 |
Achilles Ash Spear | 31 |
Homeric Compositional Techniques | 87 |
Bibliography | 98 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abantes Abas Achilles adjective Aeneas Aias appears Argive arming of Patroklos arming scenes armor ash spear ash tree association Asteropaios battle bronze race caesura colometry compositional element compositional technique connection connotations context dactylic death diaeresis diction emphasis epic episodes epithet Erinyes Euboia Euphorbos exchange of arms fire formulaic Fränkel's Greek Hektor Hephaistos hexameter HOMERIC COMPOSITIONAL Ibid Iliad importance Kuhn language linguistic meaning Meliai Menelaos meter metrical mortal Murr mythology Nagler narrative noun Odyssey oral origin ornus parallel passage Patroklos pattern Pauly-Wissowa Peleus Phoroneus poet poetic Priam Proto-Indo-European restriction role Sarpedon scholiast semantic shield simile Skamander specialized Stallbaum structure syntactic tetracolonic thematic themes Tlepolemos tradition verse word XVII XXII Zeus ἀπὸ ἄρ ἄρα γὰρ δὲ δέ οἱ δόρυ μείλινον ἐκ ἐν ἐξ ἐπὶ καὶ κατὰ μείλινον ἔγχος ὁ δ οὐ οὐδ οὐδὲ περὶ Πριάμοιο τὰ τε τὴν τῆς τοῦ τῷ τῶν ὑπὸ ὡς