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May. 7th, 2004 01:25 pmAttack of the killer plot bunnies!
Yes, it will have to join the queue, but:
Can any of you tell me where there are classical accounts of what happens before the Illiad? Specifically Hector and Paris's time in Sparta and the escape with Helen. There are probably several accounts in fact. But Homer doesn't really deal with it in any detail.
I know I can get hold of them since I seem to spend long hours between shelves of Plato, Xenophon and Aristotle at the moment and have registered to borrow from the classics library.
I suppose I could always email my supervisor to ask: he's used to me asking weird questions.
Also, since I don't have my copy of the Illiad with me, what century does Homer suggest it's in?
ETA: I've just realised how badly I phrased that question! I'll try again. I know that other poets and playwrights have written about events during the Trojan War - for example Sophocles. And of course Virgil's Aeneid. What I want to know is do you know of a text dealing directly with the elopement itself?
Yes, it will have to join the queue, but:
Can any of you tell me where there are classical accounts of what happens before the Illiad? Specifically Hector and Paris's time in Sparta and the escape with Helen. There are probably several accounts in fact. But Homer doesn't really deal with it in any detail.
I know I can get hold of them since I seem to spend long hours between shelves of Plato, Xenophon and Aristotle at the moment and have registered to borrow from the classics library.
I suppose I could always email my supervisor to ask: he's used to me asking weird questions.
Also, since I don't have my copy of the Illiad with me, what century does Homer suggest it's in?
ETA: I've just realised how badly I phrased that question! I'll try again. I know that other poets and playwrights have written about events during the Trojan War - for example Sophocles. And of course Virgil's Aeneid. What I want to know is do you know of a text dealing directly with the elopement itself?
