Status Warriors : : War, Violence and Society in Homer and History.
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| Superior document: | Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 1992. ©1992. |
| Year of Publication: | 1992 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (465 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- STATUS WARRIORS WAR, VIOLENCE AND SOCIETY IN HOMER AND HISTORY
- Copyright
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER ONE HISTORY IN POETRY ON RECONSTRUCTING THE HOMERIC WORLD
- 1. Fact and fantasy : the fourth race
- 2. Tradition : old poems or the latest songs?
- (i) Compositional technique
- (ii) Subject matter
- (iii) Social function
- 3. The case of the Big Round Shield
- 4. History in poetry : points of method
- CHAPTER TWO LIFE IN TOWN THE ORGANISATION OF HOUSEHOLD, COMMUNITY AND STATE
- 1. The hidden society : reconstructions and models
- 2. Buildings and people
- 3. Government : the princes and the people
- 4. Beyond the town
- 5. A hero's home
- 6. Friends : the men who come to dinner
- 7. The economy of the estate
- 8. Life in town : fact and fiction
- CHAPTER THREE THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ANGRY STATUS, PERSONAL POWER AND VIOLENCE
- 1. Explanations of violence
- (i) The fragmentary society
- (ii) The heroic impulse
- (iii) The shame-culture
- (iv) Assumptions and questions
- 2. The meaning of honour and excellence
- 3. Princes and bad men : ideals and exploitation
- (i) Proper beatings
- (ii) Unjust violence
- (iii) Undeserved gifts
- (iv) Fighting over plunder
- 4. Competition I : personal excellence
- 5. Competition II : power and wealth
- 6. Competition III : the struggle for respect
- (i) The Benvolio-syndrome
- (ii) The attraction of hybris
- (iii) The bullying tendency
- (iv) Questions of superiority
- 7. The ethics of anger
- (i) The moral boundaries of anger
- (ii) Pity
- (iii) Reconciliation
- (iv) Self-control
- (v) The authorities
- 8. The might of men : strength, connections and justice
- 9. The importance of being angry : fact and fiction
- CHAPTER FOUR PILLAGE AND DESTRUCTION PREDATORY AND STATUS WARFARE
- 1. Warriors at peace.
- 2. Troy I : the insult that launched a thousand ships
- 3. Troy II : the ideal of annihilation
- 4. Private conflicts, brawls and wars
- (i) The War of Men and Kentaurs
- (ii) The War of Kouretes and Aitolians
- (iii) The First Sack of Troy
- (iv) The War of the Seven against Thebes
- (v) The War of the Pylians and Epeians
- 5. Communities in competition : dangerous games
- (i) Champion-combat : Trojans versus Akhaians
- (ii) Games : the humiliation of communities
- 6. Predators
- 7. Booty and the Homeric economy
- (i) Subsistence economy : autarky and fair exchange
- (ii) Treasure economy : greed and generosity
- (iii) Convertibility of goods
- 8. Gift-exchange : the hospitality-racket
- 9. Trade and plunder : profit and prestige
- 10. Pillage and destruction : fact and fiction
- CONCLUSION
- (i) Homer
- (ii) History
- (iii) Violence
- APPENDICES
- Appendix One Towns And Townsfolk
- 1. The size of the population
- 2. Terms for towns and townsfolk
- Appendix Two Princes And Sc.eptres
- 1. Princely families and their elders
- 2. Symbolic and procedural functions of the sceptre
- Appendix Three Monarchs, Dynasties, Temenea
- 1. Kings versus Big Men
- 2. The royal estates
- Appendix Four Booty : Prizes And Portions
- 1. The mechanism of distribution
- 2. The principles of distribution
- NOTES
- Notes to Preface
- Notes to Chapter One
- Notes to Chapter Two
- Notes to Chapter Three
- Notes to Chapter Four
- Notes to Appendix One
- Notes to Appendix Two
- Notes to Appendix Three
- Notes to Appendix Four
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDICES
- Subject index
- Index of passages.