The Swineherd and the Bow : : Representations of Class in the "Odyssey" /

The Swineherd and the Bow : : Representations of Class in the "Odyssey" / / William G. Thalmann.

The Odyssey, William G. Thalmann asserts, does not describe an actual historical society at any period, but gives a selective, idiosyncratic, and contradictory picture to serve ideological ends, representing rather than reproducing social reality. The Swineherd and the Bow is an ambitious attempt to...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
Thalmann, William G.,
MitwirkendeR:
Nagy, Gregory,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1998
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Myth and Poetics
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Citations and Names
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Some "Minor" Characters in the Odyssey
  • 1. Relations of Dependency: Some Themes and Issues
  • 2. The View from Above: The Representation of Slaves in the Odyssey
  • Part II. Oikos and Community: The Contest of the Bow
  • Introduction to Part II: Competitive Performances
  • 3. Household, Honor, and the Violence of Competition
  • 4. The Contest at the Hearth: Family Values with a Vengeance
  • Part III. Paradigms and Audiences
  • Introduction to Part III: Appropriating Paradigms
  • 5. The Dark Age and Hierarchy
  • 6. The Odyssey as Social Process
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Similar Items