Jørgensen's law
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title:
Jørgensen's law
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Jørgensen's law is a principle of narration in Homeric poetry first proposed by the Danish classicist Ove Jørgensen in 1904. According to Jørgensen's law, mortal characters in the Homeric poems are generally unaware of the precise actions of the gods, unless possessed of special powers, and so attribute them generically to "the gods", Zeus, or generalised forces. The narrator and the gods themselves, meanwhile, invariably name the specific god involved, making the audience aware immediately of t
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Principle of Homeric narration
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B8rgensen%27s_law
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2024-01-07T22:37:50Z
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2024-09-01T08:58:10Z
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