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Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1976 - 6/30/1977

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)

The Interdependence of Constraint and Freedom in Homer's Iliad

FAIN: FB-12956-76

Thomas M. Falkner
College of Wooster (Wooster, OH 44691-2393)

To study the Iliad through the themes of constraint and freedom. Work will be done in three parts; reading on fate and necessity in Homer; cataloguing of the terms used to express fate and necessity in the Iliad, and analyzing the interdependence of constraint and freedom in the Iliad.