Der homerische Schiffskatalog und die Ilias. - JACHMANN, G.,

KORTE INHOUD

'Surely the most valuable section of the book, pp.267-338, 'Die homerische Gleichnisbildung'. Jachmann maintains that the subject and the simile are essentially connected only by the 'tertium comparationis'. Let A be the main theme, B the object compared: the comparison will be found to be based on a specific (and often explicit) 'point of likeness'. Once that 'Vergleichspunkt' has been established, B may go his own way, however inappropriate to A. The point is fundamental top the understanding of the similes, and Jachmann proves it in the only possible way - by giving us text and discussion of a large number of examples. (...) Time after time he shows how the simlie, once the point of likeness has been established, goes its own way regardless of its startingpoint; how it may even develop into something wholly inappropriate to its context. Jacvhmann's verdict here seems to me final: let us all welcome the 'tertium comparationis' home from its long exile.' (D.L. PAGE in The Classical Review (New Series), 1960,... Lees verder...

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1958Uitgever: Westdeutscher Verlag