Ransom, revenge, and heroic identity in the Iliad /
Wilson offers a fundamentally new 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 Hom...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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