The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours / / Gregory Nagy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
• VerfasserIn: Nagy, Gregory,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (672 p.)

The ancient Greeks' concept of "the hero" was very different from what we understand by the term today. In 24 installments, based on the Harvard course Nagy has taught and refined since the 1970s, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores civilization's roots in Classical literature-a lineage that continues to challenge and inspire us.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Brief Note about the New Edition -- Introduction -- Part One: Heroes in Epic and Lyric Poetry -- Introduction to Homeric Poetry -- HOUR 1. The Homeric Iliad and the Glory of the Unseasonal Hero -- HOUR 2. Achilles as Epic Hero and the Idea of Total Recall in Song -- HOUR 3. Achilles and the Poetics of Lament -- HOUR 4. Achilles as Lyric Hero in the Songs of Sappho and Pindar -- HOUR 5. When Mortals Become 'Equal' to Immortals: Death of a Hero, Death of a Bridegroom -- HOUR 6. Patroklos as the Other Self of Achilles -- HOUR 7. The Sign of the Hero in Visual and Verbal Art -- HOUR 8. The Psychology of the Hero's Sign in the Homeric Iliad -- HOUR 9. The Return of Odysseus in the Homeric Odyssey -- HOUR 10. The Mind of Odysseus in the Homeric Odyssey -- HOUR 11. Blessed Are the Heroes: The Cult Hero in Homeric Poetry and Beyond -- HOUR 12. The Cult Hero as an Exponent of Justice in Homeric Poetry and Beyond -- Part Two: Heroes in Prose Media -- HOUR 13. A Crisis in Reading the World of Heroes -- HOUR 14. Longing for a Hero: A Retrospective -- HOUR 15. What the Hero 'Means' -- Part Three: Heroes as Reflected in Tragedy -- Introduction to Tragedy -- HOUR 16. Heroic Aberration in the Agamemnon of Aeschylus -- HOUR 17. Looking beyond the Cult Hero in the Libation Bearers and the Eumenides of Aeschylus -- HOUR 18. Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus and the Power of the Cult Hero in Death -- HOUR 19. Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Heroic Pollution -- HOUR 20. The Hero as Mirror of Men's and Women's Experiences in the Hippolytus of Euripides -- HOUR 21. The Hero's Agony in the Bacchae of Euripides -- Part Four: Heroes as Reflected in Two Dialogues of Plato -- HOUR 22. The Living Word I: Socrates in Plato's Apology of Socrates -- HOUR 23. The Living Word II: Socrates in Plato's Phaedo -- Part Five: Heroes Transcended -- HOUR 24. The Hero as Savior -- Abbreviations -- References -- Core Vocabulary of Key Greek Words -- Index