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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