The birds in the Iliad. Identities, interactions and functions, by Karin Johansson
| Title: | The birds in the Iliad. Identities, interactions and functions |
| Authors: | Johansson, Karin |
| Issue Date: | 4-Jan-2012 |
| University: | Göteborgs universitet. Humanistiska fakulteten
University of Gothenburg. Faculty of Arts |
| Department: | Department of Historical Studies ; Institutionen för historiska studier |
| Date for public defence: | 2012-01-28 |
| Public defence: | Lördagen den 28 januari 2012, kl. 10.00, Lilla Hörsalen, Humanisten, Renströmsgatan 6, Göteborg |
| Examinationsnivå: | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Publication type: | Doctoral thesis |
| Series/Report no.: | GOTHENBURG STUDIES IN HISTORY
2 |
| Keywords: | ancient
ornithology, birds, bird symbolism, divination, double motivation,
divine intervention, Homer's Iliad, identity, messenger, metaphorical
utterances, oral tradition, parallelism, semiotics, species
interactions, transformation, transmitter, Trojan war |
| Abstract: | As
the topic of this study embraces and entwines what is routinely divided
into two separate categories, “nature” and “culture”, the birds in the
Iliad challenge modern scientific division and in some ways, our
thinking. They are simultaneously birds, signs and symbols.
The investigation aims at determining the various species of the
birds in the Iliad as far as this is possible with the help of
ornithological methods and tries through semiotics and hermeneutics to
ascertain the symbolic ... more |
| ISBN: | 978-91-7346-712-4 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/28033 |
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