Donna F. Wilson

Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a detailed anthropology of compensation in the Iliad, with reference to the wider Homeric society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780521806602
• ISBN-10: 0521806607
• Artikelnr.: 35456782

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction: compensation and heroic identity
1. Ransom and revenge: poetics and politics of compensation
2. Agamemnon and Chryses: between king and father
3. The quarrel: men who would be king
4. The embassy to Achilleus: in the name of the father
5. Achilleus and Priam: between king and father
6. Unlimited poine: poetry as practice
Appendices
Notes
Abbreviations
References
Index of Homeric passages
General index.