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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilson, Donna F., 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.