| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 236 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Compensation and Heroic Identity; 1 Ransom and Revenge; 2 Agamemnon and Chryses; 3 The Quarrel; 4 The Embassy to Achilleus; 5 Achilleus and Priam; 6 Unlimited Poine; APPENDIX 1 Catalog of Compensation Themes; APPENDIX 2 Arrangement of Compensation Themes; Notes; Abbreviations; References; Index of Homeric Passages; General Index. |
| Summary |
Wilson offers a fundamentally new 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Homer. Iliad.
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Agamemnon, King of Mycenae (Mythological character) -- In literature.
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Achilles (Mythological character) -- In literature.
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Homer. |
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Homère. Iliade. |
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Achilles (Mythological character) |
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Agamemnon, King of Mycenae (Mythological character) |
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Trojan War |
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Iliad (Homer) |
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Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
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Epic poetry, Greek. |
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Trojan War -- Literature and the war.
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Trojan War. |
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature. |
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Revenge in literature.
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Revenge in literature. |
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Heroes in literature.
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Heroes in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wilson, Donna F., 1953- Ransom, revenge, and heroic identity in the Iliad. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521806607 (DLC) 2001035612 (OCoLC)46951516 |
| ISBN |
0511020392 (electronic book) |
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9780511020391 (electronic book) |
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0511044232 (electronic book) |
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9780511044236 (electronic book) |
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9780511497797 (electronic book) |
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0511497792 (electronic book) |
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1280419172 |
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9781280419171 |
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0521806607 |
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9780521806602 |
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