The uses of simile in Triphiodorus’s poem The Sack of Troy

Authors

  • Joaquim Pinheiro Universidade da Madeira Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos – Universidade de Coimbra http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5425-9865

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_72_4

Keywords:

simile, rhetoric, Triphiodorus, homeric poetry, trojan cycle

Abstract

The aim of this paper is analysing how Triphiodorus uses the simile in his epic poem (Ἰλίου ἅλωσις). After identifying the similes in the poem, we will try to: 1) classify them thematically; 2) establish a relation with the narrative context, and 3) compare its rhetorical effects to the effects created in the Homeric Poems. In order to contextualize the dynamics generated in the poem by the use of the simile, it will be necessary to resort to the theoretical principles established in rhetorical treatises or handbooks.

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Published

2018-07-01

Issue

Vol. 72 (2018)

Section

Articles

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