Moira and Number in the Iliad: Sequentiality, Symmetry and Asymmetry when Representating Fate

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Published: Jul 25, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.nt.2024.42.2/000S22X0Q114
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Homer Iliad Numerology Moira Fate

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Jesús Francisco Gomes Pérez
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https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7501-8583

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Destiny in Iliad is a problem that has been reviewed from a myriad of approaches. Fate meaning weaving, death, equitable apportionment, more or less fixed sequence of events to occur, abstract force or distinct religious entity. In this paper we consider the possibility that the numerical uses within the poem function as a narrative and symbolic resource announcing the forces of Fate, relating and comparing the concepts of “Number” and “Moira”, while accounting
for the asymmetries and symmetries present in the poem.

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Gomes Pérez, J. F. . “Moira and Number in the Iliad: Sequentiality, Symmetry and Asymmetry When Representating Fate”. Nova Tellus, vol. 42, no. 2, July 2024, pp. 69-93, doi:10.19130/iifl.nt.2024.42.2/000S22X0Q114.
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Author Biography

Jesús Francisco Gomes Pérez, Independent Researcher

Licenciado en Letras Mención Cum Laude por la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB), Venezuela. Investiga de forma independiente sobre el uso de los numérico-simbólicos en la literatura, especialmente en el contexto homérico, y también respecto al exilio y su representación en la literatura. En 2022 recibió la Mención Publicación por su tesis de grado La reiteración numérico-simbólica y sus vínculos con la noción de moira en la Ilíada. Sus publicaciones recientes son “El Bildungsroman Young Adult venezolano: una lectura de Blue Label/Etiqueta Azul de Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles”, Revista Baciyelmo, 3, 2022, pp. 90-108; “Topologías del viaje contemporáneo: de la mímesis ritual a las dinámicas de exilio/colonialismo en Trilogía de la Guerra de Agustín Fernández Mallo”, Revista ÍMPETU, 10, 2023, pp. 56-78; “La musa aprende a contar: apuntes para una aproximación al simbolismo numérico de la Ilíada”, Nova Tellus, 42/1, 2024, pp. 93-108, y “La Isla extraña de Ricardo Piglia”, Revista Pasillo, 4, 2024. También ha participado como ponente en la Feria del Libro del Oeste de Caracas (2019), en el Coloquio: Abyección, parodia y alegoría en la nueva literatura venezolana (2021) y en el Seminario Teoría de la Literatura, Literatura Comparada y Educación Literaria de la Universidad de Sancti Spíritus (2022).

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