Title Ransom, revenge, and heroic identity in the Iliad / Donna F. Wilson

Published Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 236 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Compensation and Heroic Identity; 1 Ransom and Revenge; 2 Agamemnon and Chryses; 3 The Quarrel; 4 The Embassy to Achilleus; 5 Achilleus and Priam; 6 Unlimited Poine; APPENDIX 1 Catalog of Compensation Themes; APPENDIX 2 Arrangement of Compensation Themes; Notes; Abbreviations; References; Index of Homeric Passages; General Index Summary Wilson offers a fundamentally new 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and indexes Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Homer. Iliad. Agamemnon, King of Mycenae (Mythological character) -- In literature Achilles (Mythological character) -- In literature SUBJECT Achilles (Mythological character) fast Agamemnon, King of Mycenae (Mythological character) fast Iliad (Homer) fast Subject Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism Trojan War -- Literature and the war Identity (Psychology) in literature. Revenge in literature. Heroes in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical. Epic poetry, Greek Heroes in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Literature Revenge in literature Ilias (Homerus) Compensatie. Rolconflicten. Hämnd i litteraturen. Hjältar i litteraturen. Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0511020392 9780511020391 0511044232 9780511044236 9780511497797 0511497792 1280419172 9781280419171 9786610419173 6610419175 0521032784 9780521032780 0511176805 9780511176807 0511329814 9780511329814 0511157703 9780511157707 1107124085 9781107124080

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