Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad
Donna F. Wilson
Wilson examines the nature of compensation--ransom and revenge--in the liad, offering a fundamentally new reading of the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles. She presents a detailed anthropology of compensation in Homer, located in the wider context of agonistic exchange, to demonstrate how the struggle over definitions is a central feature of elite competition for status in the zero-sum and fluid ranking system of Homeric society. The study thus asserts the integral role of compensation in the traditional, cultural and poetic matrix of this foundational epic.
श्रेणियाँ:
साल:
2007
प्रकाशन:
Cambridge University Press
भाषा:
english
पृष्ठ:
252
ISBN 10:
0521806607
ISBN 13:
9780521806602
फ़ाइल:
PDF, 1.01 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2007