Ransom, revenge, and heroic identity in the Iliad / / Donna F. Wilson

• Autore: Wilson Donna F. <1953->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, NY, : Cambridge University Press, 2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 883/.01
• Soggetto topico: Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism; Agamemnon (Greek mythology) in literature; Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature; Trojan War - Literature and the war; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Revenge in literature; Heroes in literature
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 the wider context of agonistic exchange. Wilson argues that a struggle over definitions is a central feature of elite competition for status in the zero-sum and fluid ranking system characteristic of Homeric society. This system can be used to explain why Achilleus refuses Agamemnon's 'compensation' in Book 9, as well as why and how the embassy tries to mask it. Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad thus examines the traditional semantic, cultural and poetic matrix of which compensation is an integral part.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ransom, revenge and heroic identity in the Iliad
• ISBN: 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817922203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II