%0 Journal Article
%A Taruashvili, Leonid
%D 2014
%F propylaeumdok:2042
%K Homer ; Iliad ; Translation History of Iliad ; Comparative Literature ; Tectonics (Art)
%R 10.11588/propylaeumdok.00002042
%T Tectonics of divine body in the Iliad and its early modern translations: Dream and Athena
%U https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/2042/
%X Confronting Homer’s plastic images of Olympian gods with their interpretation by different early modern translators  (Poliziano, Lorenzo Valla, Hessus, Salel, Dacier, Dubois de Rochefort, Bitaubé, Stolberg, Voss, Hobbes, Pope, Kostrov, Gnedič and others) the author of this investigation work reveals a certain trend towards dematerializing these images through the removal of mechanical stability effect and often trough supplanting it with the motif of flight (or even soaring) – a kind of procedure that to more or less extent is typical of all modern (at least from 15th to mid 19th c) translations of Homer’s epics.