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By Laura M. Slatkin
Within the energy of Thetis, Laura M. Slatkin unearths the whole value of mythic allusion in Homeric composition and within the event of Homer's viewers.
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S. 15 (1981): 5-42; a critical assessment is offered by A. Dihle, Homer-Probleme (Opladen, 1970); see esp. pp. 19-44 in the latter. 14 Especially illuminating along these lines was the work of J. Th. 16 The Cycle poems and the Iliad offer invaluable mutual perspective on the recombination of elements deriving from a com- 14. A. Severyns, Le cycle épique dans l'école d'Aristarque (Liège, 1928), 313, dates the Aethiopis to the eighth century, but even an appoximate dating for the Cycle cannot be secure.
See G. P. Edwards, The Language of Hesiod in Its Traditional Context (Oxford, 1971); and H. Koller, "Das kitharodische (Footnote continued on next page) Page 13 Because the contents of myth must necessarily be adapted to the restrictions and demands of poetic form, such apparently disparate evidence can shed valuable light on the criteria involved in heroic epic's generic regulation of its content. It may illuminate, moreover, any given epic's idiosyncratic handling of content, beyond the first level of adaptation to the formal conventions of epic, to convey the particular ideas and themes of a particular compositiona process that comparison with epic other than the Iliad also shows us.
E. Rohde, Psyche: Seelencult und Unsterblichkeitsglaube der Griechen, vol. 2, 4th ed. (Freiburg, 1898; Tübingen, 1907), 371, calls Leuke a "Sonderelysion" for Achilles. Rohde offers a discussion of the thematic equivalence of Leuke, Elysion, and the Isles of the Blessed on pp. 365-78. On Elysion as a cult concept, see W. Burkert, "Elysion," Glotta 39 (1961): 208-13; and Th. Hadzisteliou Price, "Hero-Cult and Homer," Historia 22 (1973): 133-34. On the traditional poetic diction of "snatching," or abducting, used (at least by Proclus) to describe Thetis's action here, see note 28 below.