Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth : Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece / / Peter W. Rose.
In this ambitious and venturesome book, Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number of central Greek literary and philosophical texts. He explores major points in the trajectory from Homer to Plato where the ideology of inherited excellence-beliefs about descent from gods or her...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, N.Y. : : Cornell University Press,, 1992. ©1992. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 1992 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 412 p. ) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Marxism and the Classics
- 1. How Conservative Is the Iliad?
- 2. Ambivalence and Identity in the Odyssey
- 3. Historicizing Pindar: Pythian 10
- 4. Aeschylus' Oresteia: Dialectical Inheritance
- 5. Sophokles' Philoktetes and the Teachings of the Sophists: A Counteroffensive
- 6. Plato's Solution to the Ideological Crisis of the Greek Aristocracy
- Afterword
- References
- Index