TY - CHAP
T1 - Evaluating Workplace Relationships in the Homeric Iliad
T2 - Bringing Together Digital Approaches and Social and Cognitive Theory
AU - Minchin, Elizabeth
PY - 2025/12/8
Y1 - 2025/12/8
N2 - In this paper I bring together a cluster of verbal behaviors in the Homeric Iliad, a recent psychological study of four interrelated modes of communication in the workplace (the Responsibility Exchange Theory), and DICES, the Digital Initiative for Classics: Epic Speeches. I draw on the DICES database as a quantitative search tool and assess its capacity as a starting point for a qualitative study of how the poet depicts certain critical social interactions in the epic. My interest in a project such as this is, as always, in learning more about what makes a good story good—from the perspective of not only the storyteller but also the audience.
AB - In this paper I bring together a cluster of verbal behaviors in the Homeric Iliad, a recent psychological study of four interrelated modes of communication in the workplace (the Responsibility Exchange Theory), and DICES, the Digital Initiative for Classics: Epic Speeches. I draw on the DICES database as a quantitative search tool and assess its capacity as a starting point for a qualitative study of how the poet depicts certain critical social interactions in the epic. My interest in a project such as this is, as always, in learning more about what makes a good story good—from the perspective of not only the storyteller but also the audience.
U2 - 10.1163/978004750227_18
DO - 10.1163/978004750227_18
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978900474680
T3 - The Language of Classical Literature
SP - 389
EP - 405
BT - Direct Speech in Greek and Latin Epic
A2 - Forstall, Christopher
A2 - Verhelst, Berenice
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
ER -