Charles H. Stocking (Western University)

Homer's Iliad and the Problem of Force

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the different types of Iliadic force in dialogue with the reception of the Iliad in the French intellectual tradition, revealing how the Iliad as a whole undermines the relations of force which characters within the poem seek to establish.

Produktdetails

• Classics in Theory Series
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 151mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9780192862877
• ISBN-10: 0192862871
• Artikelnr.: 67735094

Autorenporträt

Charles Stocking is an associate professor of Classical Studies at Western University. He earned his BA with honors and MA in Classics at Stanford University and his PhD in Classics at UCLA. He is an associate fellow at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, an associate member of ANHIMA (Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Anciens), and former invited professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, France.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: The Problem of Homeric Force, between Philology and
Philosophy
* 1: "Stronger": Performative Speech and the Force of Achilles
* 2: Kratos before Democracy: Force, Politics, and Signification in the
Iliad
* 3: Force and Discourse in the Funeral Games of Patroclus
* 4: The "Force that Kills": Simone Weil and the Problem of Agency in
the Iliad
* 5: Conclusion: Homeric Forces and Human Subjects Reconsidered
* Appendix: Force in Early Greek Hexameter