TY - JOUR A1 - Norton, Bryan Y. T1 - “Shades” of Postmortem Personal Identity: ψυχή καὶ εἴδωλον in the Dream Passage (Il. 23.103-104) T2 - FeRA : Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde N2 - In a recent contribution entitled, “Homer’s Challenge to Philosophical Psychology,” Fred Miller proposes an “aporetic approach” to the Homeric poems. That is to say, a close reading of the epics reveals “serious aporiai,” at least insofar as philosophical consistency is concerned. Homeric readers, ancient and modern alike, have found irreconcilably-different answers to our perennial questions about humanity and divinity, fate and free will. To his credit, Miller rightly relieves Homer of an undue burden – viz., that of addressing the philosophical problems of later generations. “The analysis of concepts and the resolution of aporiai”: these are, as Miller notes, definitively not the priorities of an epic bard. Instead, such poets, working freely within the parameters of their oral traditions, understandably use language in ways not strictly-philosophical. Ultimately, Miller wants to argue that the ambiguities of Homer’s poetic language hastened Greece’s philosophical awakening... Y1 - 2013 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/39310 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-393102 UR - http://s145739614.online.de/fera/ausgabe22/Norton.pdf SN - 1862-8478 VL - 22 IS - 22 SP - 5 EP - 11 PB - Inst. für Archäologische Wissenschaften CY - Frankfurt am Main ER -