Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth : Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece /
In this ambitious and venturesome book, Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number of central Greek literary and philosophical texts. He explores major points in the trajectory from Homer to Plato where the ideology of inherited excellence-beliefs about descent from gods or her...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
[2019]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Marxism and the Classics
- 1. How Conservative Is the Iliad?
- 2. Ambivalence and Identity in the Odyssey
- 3. Historicizing Pindar: Pythian 10
- 4. Aeschylus' Oresteia: Dialectical Inheritance
- 5. Sophokles' Philoktetes and the Teachings of the Sophists: A Counteroffensive
- 6. Plato's Solution to the Ideological Crisis of the Greek Aristocracy
- Afterword
- References
- Index