Song of Iliad

An Origin of a Theory: A Comparison of Ethos in the Homeric Iliad with that Found in Aristotle’s Rhetoric

Homer’s Iliad is an epic story about human character, which predates the Aristotelian lectures by some four hundred years. While classical scholars have always valued Aristotle’s notion of ethos as a primary factor in persuasion, few have traced this concept to this earlier period. Following a close analysis of speeches in the Iliad, this examination attempts to reconstruct what Homer’s theory ...

On the “Importance” of “Iliad” Book 8

Class Warfare: Thersites in the Iliad

بررسی و تحلیل درون مایه عرفانی در ترانه سرایی

In this essay, the mystical song in songwriting is examined, the oldest Persian poetry has been found among the songs. The song is a general term used to refer to various types of poetry melodies or music accompanying, in particular Fahlaviyat, couplet, quatrain, and folkloric song. Mysticism is one of the most profound thought and philosophical schools that could be expressed itself in our son...

The ILIAD Project : Analysing Information using InformetricsTechniques and Natural Language

We present the ILIAD project and its current results. ILIAD aims at combining statistic and linguistic approaches in order to analyse information in large documentary databases. The resulting analysis should enable a human operator to collect the information content of a set of texts without having to read it sequentially. Our current experimentation concerns the analysis of a set of abstracts ...