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UNINA9910960022203321 |
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Autore |
Wilson Donna F. <1953-> |
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Titolo |
Ransom, revenge, and heroic identity in the Iliad / / Donna F. Wilson |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-107-12408-5 |
0-521-03278-4 |
0-511-49779-2 |
0-511-04423-2 |
0-511-17680-5 |
0-511-32981-4 |
1-280-41917-2 |
0-511-15770-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Trojan War - Literature and the war |
Identity (Psychology) in literature |
Revenge in literature |
Heroes in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 poine, or 'revenge' is the basis of Donna Wilson's detailed anthropology of compensation in Homer, which she locates in |
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