Minor Characters in Homer’s Iliad

IF 0.9 2区 历史学 0 CLASSICS
J. L. Ready
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Abstract

This article focuses on those Iliadic characters who fall in battle to the poem’s major heroes. Homer has various ways to make these characters minor, such as through processes of obscuring or typification or by focusing on a specific body part. By making a character minor, the poet signals that we need not attend to him. After he makes a character minor, the poet can suggest that in the process of being made minor a character paradoxically ends up diverting attention from another character, or he can portray minorness as marked by an inability to divert attention from another. The poet can present in one episode these two different visions of minorness and can make one character depict another as minor by using the tactics deployed by the narrator. This study accentuates the narratological complexities that arise in the poet’s depiction of minor characters. That complexity shapes our understanding of the Iliad’s concern with the distribution of narrative attention among all its characters.
荷马《伊利亚特》中的次要人物
这篇文章的重点是那些在战斗中败给诗歌中的主要英雄的伊利亚文字。荷马有各种方法使这些人物变得次要,比如通过模糊或典型化的过程,或者通过关注特定的身体部位。诗人通过使一个人物变得次要,表明我们不必关心他。在他将一个角色变为次要角色后,诗人可以提出,在变为次要的过程中,一个角色矛盾地最终转移了另一个角色的注意力,或者他可以将次要角色描绘为无法转移另一个人物的注意力。诗人可以在一集中呈现这两种不同的小人物形象,并可以通过叙述者的策略使一个角色将另一个角色描绘成小人物。这项研究强调了在诗人对次要人物的描绘中出现的叙事学复杂性。这种复杂性塑造了我们对《伊利亚特》关注的理解,即叙事注意力在所有人物中的分布。
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