Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
From Villain to Hero: Odysseus in Ancient Thought

From Villain to Hero: Odysseus in Ancient Thought

Montiglio, Silvia

Hardcover

Literary CriticismAncient Greece

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 0472117742
ISBN13: 9780472117741
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: Aug 15 2011
Pages: 238
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.58 Depth: 9.35
Language: English

Praise for Silvia Montiglio

[A] brilliant and important book. . . .
---Journal of Religion, on Silence in the Land of Logos

[A]n invigorating reevaluation of both the ancient symbolic landscape and our preconceptions of it.
---American Journal of Philology, on Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture

Best known for his adventures during his homeward journey as narrated in Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus remained a major figure and a source of inspiration in later literature, from Greek tragedy to Dante's Inferno to Joyce's Ulysses. Less commonly known, but equally interesting, are Odysseus' wanderings in ancient philosophy: Odysseus becomes a model of wisdom for Socrates and his followers, Cynics and Stoics, as well as for later Platonic thinkers. From Villain to Hero: Odysseus in Ancient Thought follows these wanderings in the world of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, retracing the steps that led the cunning hero of Homeric epic and the villain of Attic tragedy to become a paradigm of the wise man.

Also in

Literary Criticism

View All