epic Abstract: This contribution analyses the three different types of messenger scenes in Roman epic: 1. messages between gods, 2. messages commissioned, delivered, and received by mortals, and 3. messenger [...] under discussion to depict the three different types of messenger scenes and its four main stages: 1. the commissioning of the message, 2. the dispatching of the messenger, 3. the messenger’s arrival, [...] good reason, as the nature of the dead is “notoriously complex, ambiguous, and even contradictory.”1 While it is not possible to reconcile and explain all contradictions of the obscure verbal interactions
https://www.epische-bauformen.uni-rostock.de/en/translate-to-english-volume-ii2-configuration/