LEADER 03925oam 22006014a 450 001 9910367624903321 005 20240424230232.0 010 $a0-8014-2425-9 010 $a1-5017-3769-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501737695 035 $a(CKB)4100000008622369 035 $a(OCoLC)1122613406 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse74761 035 $a(DE-B1597)527371 035 $a(OCoLC)1105892103 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501737695 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/89148 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008622369 100 $a19910816d1992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSons of the Gods, Children of Earth$eIdeology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece /$fPeter W. Rose 210 $cCornell University Press$d2019 210 1$aIthaca, N.Y. :$cCornell University Press,$d1992. 210 4$dİ1992. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 412 p. ) 311 $a1-5017-4258-2 311 $a1-5017-4257-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [375]-405) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: Marxism and the Classics --$t1. How Conservative Is the Iliad? --$t2. Ambivalence and Identity in the Odyssey --$t3. Historicizing Pindar: Pythian 10 --$t4. Aeschylus' Oresteia: Dialectical Inheritance --$t5. Sophokles' Philoktetes and the Teachings of the Sophists: A Counteroffensive --$t6. Plato's Solution to the Ideological Crisis of the Greek Aristocracy --$tAfterword --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aIn this ambitious and venturesome book, Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number of central Greek literary and philosophical texts. He explores major points in the trajectory from Homer to Plato where the ideology of inherited excellence-beliefs about descent from gods or heroes-is elaborated and challenged. Rose offers subtle and penetrating new readings of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Pindar's Tenth Pythian Ode, Aeschylus's Oresteia, Sophokles' Philoktetes, and Plato's Republic.Rose rejects the view of art as a mere reflection of social and political reality-a view that is characteristic not only of most Marxist but of most historically oriented treatments of classical literature. He applies instead a Marxian hermeneutic derived from the work of the Frankfurt School and Fredric Jameson. His readings focus on illuminating a politics of form within the text, while responding to historically specific social, political, and economic realities. Each work, he asserts, both reflects contemporary conflicts over wealth, power, and gender roles and constitutes an attempt to transcend the status quo by projecting an ideal community. Following Marx, Rose maintains that critical engagement with the limitations of the utopian dreams of the past is the only means to the realization of freedom in the present.Classicists and their students, literary theorists, philosophers, comparatists, and Marxist critics will find Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth challenging reading. 606 $aMarxist criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zGreece 606 $aLiterary form$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aGreek literature$xHistory and criticism 607 $aGreece$xPolitics and government 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aLiterary studies: ancient, classical & medieval 615 0$aMarxist criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature 615 0$aLiterary form$xHistory 615 0$aGreek literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a880.9/358/0901 700 $aRose$b Peter W$g(Peter Wires),$f1936-$01023222 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910367624903321 996 $aSons of the Gods, Children of Earth$92430760 997 $aUNINA