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The meaning of meat and the structure of the Odyssey /
"This comprehensive study of the Odyssey sees in meat and meat consumption a centre of gravitation for the interpretation of the poem. It aims to place the cultural practices represented in the poem against the background of the (agricultural) lived reality of the poem's audiences in the a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Prologue: food for song; Chapter 1 Epos and aoide; Epos and aoide; Just like an aoidos; Chapter 2 Nostos as quest; Nostos and quest; Variations on a theme; From quest to return; Chapter 3 Meat in myth and life; Heroic feasting; The dangers of the dais; Dining to destroy; Meat in the real world; Chapter 4 Of hunters and herders; The Suitors and the Cyclops; The Master of Animals; Unlimited meats, innumerable goats; The limits of wealth; Unlimited meats, numbered sheep; The master's return; Chapter 5 Feasting in the land of the dawn; Hunting to survive.
- The inclusive societyThe yearlong feast; Rethinking the Necyia; The feast of the ghosts; Chapter 6 The revenge of the Sun; The festival of the New Moon; Eating in the land of the Sun; Archery in the light of the Sun; Chapter 7 The justice of Poseidon; The prayer and the sacrifice; Zeus and Poseidon; Justice for Odysseus; Chapter 8 Remembering the gaster; Bellies and beggars; Bastards and burning ones; Gaster and thumos; Gaster and menos; Remembering the gaster; Odysseus and Achilles; Epilogue: on interformularity
- Bibliography; Index locorum; Index.