Perfidy and passion : reintroducing the Iliad /
"Homer's Iliad is often considered a poem of blunt truthfulness, his characters' motivation pleasingly simple. A closer look, however, reveals a complex interplay of characters who engage in an awful lot of lies. Beginning with Achilles, who hatches a secret plot to destroy his own pe...
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Madison :
The University of Wisconsin Press,
©2012.
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| Series: | Wisconsin studies in classics.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Riddles of identity in the Iliad
- The tragedy of Achilles: the Iliad as a poem of betrayal
- Comedy and class struggle
- The politics of poetry
- The poetry of politics
- Couples: the Iliad on intimacy
- Flirtations
- The afterlife of homer
- Conclusion: how to sum up the Iliad in a riddle.
