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Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad Wilson, Donna F. (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)
Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad
Wilson, Donna F. (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)
Wilson offers a reading of the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilleus, presenting a detailed anthropology of compensation in Archaic Greece, and demonstrating how the struggle over definitions was a central feature of elite competition for status in the fluid ranking system of Homeric society.
248 pages, 21 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 27, 2002 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521806602 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 250 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 17 mm · 537 g |
| Language | English |