Ransom, revenge, and heroic identity in the Iliad /

Ransom, revenge, and heroic identity in the Iliad /

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From beginning to end of the Iliad, Agamemnon and Achilleus are locked in a high-stakes struggle for dominance based on their efforts to impose competing definitions of loss incurred and the nature of compensation thereby owed. This typology of scenes involving apoina, or 'ransom' and poin...

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Main Author: Wilson, Donna F., 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Homer. > Iliad.
Agamemnon, > King of Mycenae (Mythological character) > In literature.
Achilles > (Mythological character) > In literature.
Trojan War > Literature and the war.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Revenge in literature.
Heroes in literature.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Compensation and Heroic Identity
  • Ransom and Revenge: Poetics and Politics of Compensation
  • Agamemnon and Chryses: Between King and Father
  • The Quarrel: Men Who Would Be King
  • The Embassy to Achilleus: In the Name of the Father
  • Achilleus and Priam: Between King and Father
  • Unlimited Poine: Poetry as Practice
  • App. 1. Catalog of Compensation Themes
  • App. 2. Arrangement of Compensation Themes.

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