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Through the guise of these heroes - Achilles, Agamemnon, Ajax, Heracles - we can grasp the multi-valent personification of the human/divine dichotomy in Greek poetry. Meister does a superb job of exploring both the rhetoric and aspects of divinity used to portray this. * Cliff Cunningham, Book Reviews, Sun News Tucson *

The book is lucid and very readable. It is far from narrow, especially when the footnotes with additional parallels are taken into account - a glance at the Index Locorum shows a range far beyond the genres and chronological limits of its main discussion, including post-classical Greek, Latin poetry, inscriptions, and papyri. * Ruth Scodel, GNOMON * Through the guise of these heroes - Achilles, Agamemnon, Ajax, Heracles - we can grasp the multi-valent personification of the human/divine dichotomy in Greek poetry. Meister does a superb job of exploring both the rhetoric and aspects of divinity used to portray this. * Cliff Cunningham, Book Reviews, Sun News Tucson *

The book is lucid and very readable. It is far from narrow, especially when the footnotes with additional parallels are taken into account - a glance at the Index Locorum shows a range far beyond the genres and chronological limits of its main discussion, including post-classical Greek, Latin poetry, inscriptions, and papyri. * Ruth Scodel, GNOMON * Through the guise of these heroes – Achilles, Agamemnon, Ajax, Heracles – we can grasp the multi-valent personification of the human/divine dichotomy in Greek poetry. Meister does a superb job of exploring both the rhetoric and aspects of divinity used to portray this. * Cliff Cunningham, Book Reviews, Sun News Tucson * From his doctoral thesis titled Momentary immortality: Greek Praise Poetry and Rhetoric of Divinity, revised and enriched, this monograph is introduced by F. J. Meister under the title Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity. * Maria Papadopoulos, Hellenic Religion *

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Felix J. Meister studied Classics at the University of Leipzig and the University of Oxford, where he received his DPhil in 2015. He has worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Cologne since 2014 and lives in Cologne with his wife and their Golden Retriever, Nestor.

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