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Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad

by Donna F. Wilson

Cambridge University Press

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Wilson examines the nature of compensation--ransom and revenge--in the liad, offering a fundamentally new reading of the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles. She presents a detailed anthropology of compensation in Homer, located in the wider context of agonistic exchange, to demonstrate how the struggle over definitions is a central feature of elite competition for status in the zero-sum and fluid ranking system of Homeric society.

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Book details

ISBN-13
9780521806602
ISBN-10
0521806607
Author
Donna F. Wilson
Condition
New
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