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Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad

Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad

Wilson, Donna F.

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ISBN10: 0521806607
ISBN13: 9780521806602
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: May 27 2002
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Wilson examines the nature of compensation--ransom and revenge--in the liad, offering a fundamentally new reading of the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles. She presents a detailed anthropology of compensation in Homer, located in the wider context of agonistic exchange, to demonstrate how the struggle over definitions is a central feature of elite competition for status in the zero-sum and fluid ranking system of Homeric society. The study thus asserts the integral role of compensation in the traditional, cultural and poetic matrix of this foundational epic.

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