By Roland Merullo
During this richly evocative novel--the relocating tale of 1 boy's coming of age--acclaimed writer Roland Merullo will make you nostalgic for a small Massachusetts urban known as Revere no matter if you've by no means been there. offering a window into an unspoiled the United States of 40 years in the past, In Revere welcomes you to the fiercely unswerving and dedicated Italian-American family members of the Benedettos.
Although he used to be orphaned as a toddler, younger Anthony Benedetto was once continually surrounded by means of kin, and the colourful heat of the Revere group. His Uncle Peter, a former Golden Gloves boxer whose days of glory have been in the back of him, believed Tonio was once sure for nice issues. So did his daughter Rosie, Tonio's favourite cousin, who could take many fallacious turns--away from Tonio--through formative years. His light grandparents, who took him in, inspired him to say a destiny outdoor of Revere, however the hot, unconditional love of his kin, and the smells and sounds of Revere stick with him forever.
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2—3). Homer's polemic would then be in his insistence that cremation is the end of all sensibility (cf. //. 75—6, Od. 218—22). 39 Epist. adMenoec. L. L. 139. 40 Gf. Cho. 40 i, 293—4. Gf. also Eur. Or. 1225 42. 41 Gf. Aristot. poet. I452a7-io, mir. ausc. 846a; Plut. de ser. num. vind. 8 553d. Gf. Burkert 1992^: 72-3. 42 For psychagogia, see already Od. 23—37. It was apparently common in tragedy: Aesch. Pers. 607 93, cf. Cho. 's fragmentary play Psychagogoi: Tj8, F273 8 TrG Athenian vases attest scenes of psychagogia in Athenian drama of the early v BG: Green 1994: 17-18.
76, N. 85 (discussed below in Chapters n and 13 respectively), P. 7-9. If these are admitted as choral first persons, then it follows that at least these odes were chorally performed. Position (b) also runs into difficulties. There are a number of firstperson statements in the odes which seem to refer to the poet to the exclusion of the chorus. One such is P. 77-8 (discussed in Chapter 14). Another awkward passage is 0. 97 There the first-person speaker evidently intends: my grandmother is Stymphalian, because my mother is Thebe, whose mother in turn was the Stymphalian nymph Metope.
3, 0. 10, and /. 2: see below); other odes seem to celebrate several victories, not one in particular. When victories are simply ranked in descending order of the importance of the games (Olympian, Pythian, Isthmian, and Nemean), we are not in a position to know which victory, or indeed whether any single victory, provided the immediate occasion for the ode. g. 0. 15-18, 54-9; /. 17— 22). no Even with odes which celebrate a specific athletic victory (or victories), it is not always easy to determine whether the celebration of that victory (or victories) was the occasion for the ode.
