Fantastic Creatures and where to find them in the Iliad

• Zanon, Camila Aline ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade de São Paulo

     Universidade de São Paulo

     Brasil

     
• Localización: Classica: Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, ISSN 0103-4316, ISSN-e 2176-6436, Vol. 32, Nº. 2, 2019, págs. 235-252
• Idioma: inglés
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  • As a poem centered on war, the Iliad is not considered to be endowed with the element of the fantastic as is the Odyssey. There are, however, mentions or allusions to some creatures fought by heroes of previous generation, like Heracles and Bellerophon, along with some brief mentions to other fantastic creatures, like the Gorgon, the centaurs, Briareus and Typhon. This paper aims to locate those brief presences in the broader narrative frame of the Iliad.