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Author Gottschall, Jonathan.

Title The rape of Troy : evolution, violence, and the world of Homer / Jonathan Gottschall
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 223 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Rebuilding Homer's Greece; Chapter 2 A short ethnography of Homeric society; Chapter 3 Why do men fight? The evolutionary biology and anthropology of male violence; Chapter 4 What launched the 1,186 ships?; Chapter 5 Status warriors; Chapter 6 Homeric women: re-imagining the fitness landscape; Chapter 7 Homer's missing daughters; Chapter 8 The Prisoner's Dilemma and the mystery of tragedy; Conclusion: Between lions and men; Appendix: Dating Homeric society; Notes; Works cited; Index
Summary A highly innovative study analysing Homeric conflict from the perspective of modern evolutionary biology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-217) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Homer -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Homer. fast (OCoLC)fst00029137
Subject War in literature.
Human evolution in literature.
Sex distribution (Demography) -- History
Civilization, Homeric.
Trojan War -- Literature and the war
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Civilization, Homeric.
Human evolution in literature.
Sex distribution (Demography)
War in literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
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