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DE NOVIS LIBRIS IUDICIA

DE NOVIS LIBRIS IUDICIA DE NOVIS LIBRIS IUDICIA M. A lden , Homer Beside Himself. Para-Narratives in the Iliad. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001. 384 pp. In this study M. Alden (A.) sets out to interpret the, as she calls them, para-narratives of the Iliad , i.e., secondary narratives related by characters or by the poet himself; most famously, Nestor’s remini- scences, the Shield of Achilles, the Tydeus paradigms, the genealogies of Glaucus and Aeneas, and the Meleager story. 1 ) More speciŽ cally, she aims to show that these narratives are used by the poet to in uence the audience’s interpretation of the main narrative. This approach is not new, but what makes A.’s endeavour novel is the extent to which she is prepared to relate secondary and primary narrative. (In view of this avowed aim, I think her neologism para-narrative is not the most felicitous one, since the preposition ‘para’ to me suggests separation rather than integration.) This is both the strength and weakness of her approach: Homeric scholarship is enriched with a very thorough exam- ination of the—important and intriguing—embedded narratives of the Iliad , but her interpretations to my taste often go very far. Let me give some http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

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Mnemosyne , Volume 56 (1): 81 – Jan 1, 2003

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© 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0026-7074
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1568-525X
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10.1163/156852503762457527
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DE NOVIS LIBRIS IUDICIA M. A lden , Homer Beside Himself. Para-Narratives in the Iliad. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001. 384 pp. In this study M. Alden (A.) sets out to interpret the, as she calls them, para-narratives of the Iliad , i.e., secondary narratives related by characters or by the poet himself; most famously, Nestor’s remini- scences, the Shield of Achilles, the Tydeus paradigms, the genealogies of Glaucus and Aeneas, and the Meleager story. 1 ) More speciŽ cally, she aims to show that these narratives are used by the poet to in uence the audience’s interpretation of the main narrative. This approach is not new, but what makes A.’s endeavour novel is the extent to which she is prepared to relate secondary and primary narrative. (In view of this avowed aim, I think her neologism para-narrative is not the most felicitous one, since the preposition ‘para’ to me suggests separation rather than integration.) This is both the strength and weakness of her approach: Homeric scholarship is enriched with a very thorough exam- ination of the—important and intriguing—embedded narratives of the Iliad , but her interpretations to my taste often go very far. Let me give some

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