Abstract The paper treats the description of the palace of Alcinous (Od. 7,84–132), with two goals. Firstly, the use of the present tense (103–131) in the description, which has been found problematic by critics since Friedländer (1851), is elucidated by drawing on the evidence of the scholia and on Rijksbaron’s narratological interpretation. Secondly, I argue that the entire description is of importance for the narrative structure of the epic in that it exhibits complex points of contact with other passages of the epic and thus has a thematic function, which corresponds to the threefold division of the description: the feast in the palace (84‒102), the activities of the maids (103‒111) and the fruitfulness of the garden (112‒132). The whole description of the palace, with its thematic connections, invites the recipient to understand the epic in its ‘spatial form’.

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对于 Alcinous 宫的描述 (Od. 7,84-132)

摘要 本文对阿尔辛努斯宫（Od. 7,84-132）的描述，有两个目的。首先，在描述中使用现在时 (103-131)，自 Friedländer (1851) 以来，批评家就发现这一问题存在问题，通过利用 scholia 的证据和 Rijksbaron 的叙事学解释来阐明。其次，我认为整个描述对于史诗的叙事结构很重要，因为它表现出与史诗其他段落的复杂联系点，因此具有主题功能，这对应于描述的三部分：宫廷盛宴（84-102），女仆的活动（103-111）和花园的丰收（112-132）。宫殿的整个描述，以及它的主题联系，