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Lineage-Boasting and the Road not Taken

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Mabel L. Lang
Affiliation:
Bryn Mawr College

Extract

There are in the Iliad nine examples of individuals, either human or divine, who recount their ancestry in some detail. The overlap of situation, assertion and vocabulary among these nine examples seems to be sufficient to constitute a theme of lineage-boasting.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1994

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