Ransom, revenge, and heroic identity in the iliad
Auteur :
Wilson, Donna F.
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521032780
Date de publication :
25 janv. 2007
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,0 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
376 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Wilson offers a 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.