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About the Author
Alex C. Purves is Professor of Classics at University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Space and Time in Ancient Greek Narrative and the editor of Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses (with Shane Butler) and Touch and the Ancient Senses. She has also written several articles on Homer and archaic Greek poetry.
Reviews
Following a perspective that is both rigorous and open, [Purves' book] achieves its goal perfectly, renewing prevailing Homeric scholarship through the study of gesture and its effects on the representation of characters, their style, and the plot, as well as on the ancient and modern reader/spectator. * Michel Briand, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
The scale of Purves' accomplishment in this book is simply dazzling. She has offered a wealth of new interpretive insights...while providing a methodological model that can be applied to the study of bodies and embodied performance in antiquity. * Anna Uhlig, Classical Journal-Online *
An illuminating study of body-language in the Iliad and the Odyssey. [Purves's] greatest contribution lies in showing that the interplay between what is patterned and what is innovative extends to the kinetic aspects of Homeric epic. * Christos Tsagalis, Classical World *
A remarkable book....[It] offers a new poetics of gesture that convincingly shows that bodies move in formal and virtually formulaic patterns in the two epics, and that these movements weave together complex patterns of meaning. * James I. Porter, author of Homer: The Very Idea *
One of the most original, illuminating studies of Homeric poetry in the past half century. Purves...convincingly reinterprets both individual passages and each epic as a whole. * Seth L. Schein, author of The Mortal Hero: an Introduction to Homer's Iliad *
Recommended. * D. Lateiner, CHOICE *
Book Information
ISBN 9780197651193
Author Alex C. Purves
Format Paperback
Page Count 230
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 340g
Dimensions(mm) 147mm * 226mm * 15mm