Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad
Donna F. (Brooklyn College, City University of New York) Wilson
Cambridge University Press, 2007
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521032780
- ISBN-10
- 0521032784
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2007
- Publication date
- 2007-01-25
- Pages
- 252
- Dimensions
- 228x150x17
- Weight
- 376