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  • Homer and the Poetics of Gesture. Oxford University Press, 2019. 232p. Hardback. Following a perspective that is both rigorous and open, [Purves' book] achieves its goal perfectly, renewing prevailing Homeric scholarship through the study of gesture and its effects on the representation of characters, their style, and the plot, as well as on the ancient and modern reader/spectator. Michel Briand, Bryn Mawr Classical Review |a 31/08/2022 (Publisher's information). € 92.40 (New) (Printed on Demand)  (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780190857929