Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad Hardback - Hardcover

Wilson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521806607 ISBN 13: 9780521806602

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Wilson offers a reading of the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilleus, presenting a detailed anthropology of compensation in Archaic Greece, and demonstrating how the struggle over definitions was a central feature of elite competition for status in the fluid ranking system of Homeric society.

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'... this book is an important contribution to the understanding of the Iliad. It will prove useful to all those studying Homeric poetry and society.' Journal of Hellenic Studies

'This book offers a rich feast of theory and literary analysis. Wilson's scholarship is first rate and her analysis, though subtle and with many strands, is clear and coherent ... It is a noteworthy contribution both to the study of power and dominance in Homeric society and to the poetics of the Iliad.' Walter Donlan, University of California, Irvine

'... Donna Wilson succeeds brilliantly in untangling an interpretive knot that has bound up the exegesis of the Iliad for centuries. ... [She] provides a sensitive and sophisticated analysis of the cultural poetics of compensation, showing that the crucial terms ... are not major structuring concepts with the Iliad, but within Greek society, and not just static concepts, but ones essentially open to constant rhetorically charged renegotiation.' Richard Martin, Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor of Classics, Stanford University

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521806607
• ISBN 13: 9780521806602
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248