The Different “Worlds” of Ekphrasis in Book XVIII of the Iliad
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The ekphrasis of Achilles' shield has garnered the attention of numerous interpreters of the Iliad. However, when analyzed as an ‘imago mundi’, whether descriptive or narrative, the investigation remains confined to an ontic level. A properly ontological approach reveals that the continuous display of the different ‘lifeworlds’ initiates the distance inherent to abstraction. This distance, concomitant with the phenomenon of the polis, is also reflected on a formal level through metalepsis, which is reinforced in the lines relating to the ‘rural’. Regarding the ‘city’, this is shown in the transition from personal revenge to the public trial, where a histor decides where the limit lies. In the final section, the maximum distance is reached, with the event of the festival and the figure of the ocean as representations of the limit.
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