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Ransom, revenge, and heroic identity in the Iliad /
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 Hom...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 236 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0511020392 9780511020391 0511044232 9780511044236 9780511497797 0511497792 1280419172 9781280419171 9786610419173 6610419175 0521032784 9780521032780 0511176805 9780511176807 0511329814 9780511329814 0511157703 9780511157707 1107124085 9781107124080 |