Ransom, revenge, and heroic identity in the Iliad /
[Book]
Donna F. Wilson.
New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
1 online resource (ix, 236 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and indexes.
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.
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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.
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Ransom, revenge, and heroic identity in the Iliad.
0521806607
Achilles-- In literature.
Agamemnon,In literature.
Homer., Iliad.
Homère, Iliade.
Achilles
Agamemnon
Iliad (Homer)
Epic poetry, Greek-- History and criticism.
Heroes in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Revenge in literature.
Trojan War-- Literature and the war.
Achille (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature.
Agamemnon (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature.