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'What's Fishing Like?' - The Rhetoric of Similes in Oppian's Halieutica

Bartley, Adam (2005) 'What's Fishing Like?' - The Rhetoric of Similes in Oppian's Halieutica. Classics Ireland, 12 . pp. 1-12. ISSN 0791-9417. (doi:10.2307/25528414) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:10805)

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Abstract

This article considers the way the the highly developed and complex similes of the Halieutica, a second century AD epic poem on fishing, reflect not only the tradition of extended simile from Homer, but also contemporary developments in rhetorical training.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.2307/25528414
Projects: A Commentary of Lucian's Dialogi Marini
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PA Classical philology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages
Funders: Irish Research Council (https://ror.org/051xex213)
Depositing User: Adam Bartley
Date Deposited: 08 Oct 2008 21:36 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Mar 2023 11:30 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/10805 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Bartley, Adam.

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