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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 236 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511020392
  • 9780511020391
  • 0511044232
  • 9780511044236
  • 9780511497797
  • 0511497792
  • 1280419172
  • 9781280419171
  • 9786610419173
  • 6610419175
  • 0521032784
  • 9780521032780
  • 0511176805
  • 9780511176807
  • 0511329814
  • 9780511329814
  • 0511157703
  • 9780511157707
  • 1107124085
  • 9781107124080
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ransom, revenge, and heroic identity in the Iliad.DDC classification:
  • 883/.01 21
LOC classification:
  • PA4037 .W74 2002eb
Other classification:
  • 18.43
  • G.096z Hämnd/DR
  • G.096z Hjältar/DR
  • Goaz Homerus/DR
  • G.096z Hämnd/DR
  • G.096z Hjältar/DR
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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.
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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.
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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.

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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