Homer and the Poetics of Hades, written by George Alexander Gazis

George Alexander Gazis, Homer and the Poetics of Hades. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 253 pp. ISBN 9780198787266 (hbk.)Homeric scholarship has hitherto not paid systematic attention to the position Hades holds in the Iliad and the Odyssey. Gazis uses the methodological tool of energeia, “vivid representation,” in order to render Homeric descriptions of the underworld palpable. In the introduction, Homeric vividness is pinned down in terms of visuality, temporality, spatiality, memory, and poetic language. Surprisingly, Hades (a god and a name for the underworld) is considered to be a

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