Marta González González
Achilles
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Achilles
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Achilles presents the episodes in the life of this hero in chronological order, based primarily on the Greek sources.
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Achilles presents the episodes in the life of this hero in chronological order, based primarily on the Greek sources.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
- Seitenzahl: 166
- Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 15mm
- Gewicht: 245g
- ISBN-13: 9780367901189
- ISBN-10: 0367901188
- Artikelnr.: 58409973
- Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
- Seitenzahl: 166
- Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 15mm
- Gewicht: 245g
- ISBN-13: 9780367901189
- ISBN-10: 0367901188
- Artikelnr.: 58409973
Marta González González is Profesora Titular of Greek Philology at Málaga University (Spain). Her main research interests are Greek literature (particularly tragedy), Greek religion, and epigraphy. She is the author of a monograph on the Greek epigrammatist Nossis of Locri (2006) and of a co-authored book, with Ana Iriarte, Entre Ares y Afrodita. Violencia del erotismo y erótica de la violencia en la Grecia Antigua (2008, reprinted, 2010). Her most recent publications include articles on Greek religious vocabulary of funerary inscriptions.
Series foreword
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Why Achilles?
1. Introducing Achilles
A Mythological "Biography"?
Who is Achilles?
Evidence for Achilles
The Best of the Achaeans, Apollo's Antagonist
The Scope of this Book
Brief overview of each chapter
Key Themes
2. The Origins of The Trojan War, The Origin of Achilles
Introduction
The Origins of the Trojan War: Achilles and Helen
The Birth and Childhood of Achilles
Achilles' Teachers
Overview
3. A Men's World: Achilles' Emotions
Introduction
Emotions and scenarios of action
Achilles' anger as the Iliad's leitmotif
Achilles and Ajax. A shame culture
The Myrmidons
Overview
4. Achilles' Sacrificial Victims
Introduction
Ambush, Pursuit and Sacrifice of Troilus
Young Trojans on the Pyre of Patroclus
The Hawk Chasing a Dove: The Death of Hector
A Last Sacrifice in Honour of Achilles: Polyxena
Overview
5. Gender And Sexuality
Introduction
Achilles on Skyros: Becoming a Man in Ancient Greece
Achilles and Patroclus in Love?
Tears of Heroes
Sexual Violence on the Trojan Stage
Overview
6. The Fury Subdued: To Forget, To Forgive
Introduction
Agamemnon's guilt
Kissing Achilles' Hands
Achilles with no Shadows
Overview
7. The Death And Cult Of Achilles
Introduction
The Tradition of Achilles' Death in the Epic. Echoes of the "Homeric
Question"
Achilles' Heel, Achilles' Ankle: the Death of the Hero
Achilles in the Underworld. The Island of Leuke
The Cults of Achilles. Archaeological and Literary Evidence
Overview
8. Philosophical, Political and Ethical Debates
Introduction
Achilles and the tortoise
Not life but a good life. Achilles as model for Socrates
Healing anger
Justice and revenge
More hateful than the gates of Hades is the man who hides one thing in his
heart and says another
Overview
9. Achilles In Modern Literature In English
Introduction
When there was peace, before the coming of the sons of the Achaians (Il.
22.156)
Never More Shall a Second Grief thus Reach my Heart (Il. 23.45-46)
And laid his manslaughtering hands over the chest of his dear friend (Il.
23.18)
And kissed the hands that had killed so many of his sons (Il. 24. 478-479)
Overview
Further reading
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Why Achilles?
1. Introducing Achilles
A Mythological "Biography"?
Who is Achilles?
Evidence for Achilles
The Best of the Achaeans, Apollo's Antagonist
The Scope of this Book
Brief overview of each chapter
Key Themes
2. The Origins of The Trojan War, The Origin of Achilles
Introduction
The Origins of the Trojan War: Achilles and Helen
The Birth and Childhood of Achilles
Achilles' Teachers
Overview
3. A Men's World: Achilles' Emotions
Introduction
Emotions and scenarios of action
Achilles' anger as the Iliad's leitmotif
Achilles and Ajax. A shame culture
The Myrmidons
Overview
4. Achilles' Sacrificial Victims
Introduction
Ambush, Pursuit and Sacrifice of Troilus
Young Trojans on the Pyre of Patroclus
The Hawk Chasing a Dove: The Death of Hector
A Last Sacrifice in Honour of Achilles: Polyxena
Overview
5. Gender And Sexuality
Introduction
Achilles on Skyros: Becoming a Man in Ancient Greece
Achilles and Patroclus in Love?
Tears of Heroes
Sexual Violence on the Trojan Stage
Overview
6. The Fury Subdued: To Forget, To Forgive
Introduction
Agamemnon's guilt
Kissing Achilles' Hands
Achilles with no Shadows
Overview
7. The Death And Cult Of Achilles
Introduction
The Tradition of Achilles' Death in the Epic. Echoes of the "Homeric
Question"
Achilles' Heel, Achilles' Ankle: the Death of the Hero
Achilles in the Underworld. The Island of Leuke
The Cults of Achilles. Archaeological and Literary Evidence
Overview
8. Philosophical, Political and Ethical Debates
Introduction
Achilles and the tortoise
Not life but a good life. Achilles as model for Socrates
Healing anger
Justice and revenge
More hateful than the gates of Hades is the man who hides one thing in his
heart and says another
Overview
9. Achilles In Modern Literature In English
Introduction
When there was peace, before the coming of the sons of the Achaians (Il.
22.156)
Never More Shall a Second Grief thus Reach my Heart (Il. 23.45-46)
And laid his manslaughtering hands over the chest of his dear friend (Il.
23.18)
And kissed the hands that had killed so many of his sons (Il. 24. 478-479)
Overview
Further reading
Bibliography
Index
Series foreword
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Why Achilles?
1. Introducing Achilles
A Mythological "Biography"?
Who is Achilles?
Evidence for Achilles
The Best of the Achaeans, Apollo's Antagonist
The Scope of this Book
Brief overview of each chapter
Key Themes
2. The Origins of The Trojan War, The Origin of Achilles
Introduction
The Origins of the Trojan War: Achilles and Helen
The Birth and Childhood of Achilles
Achilles' Teachers
Overview
3. A Men's World: Achilles' Emotions
Introduction
Emotions and scenarios of action
Achilles' anger as the Iliad's leitmotif
Achilles and Ajax. A shame culture
The Myrmidons
Overview
4. Achilles' Sacrificial Victims
Introduction
Ambush, Pursuit and Sacrifice of Troilus
Young Trojans on the Pyre of Patroclus
The Hawk Chasing a Dove: The Death of Hector
A Last Sacrifice in Honour of Achilles: Polyxena
Overview
5. Gender And Sexuality
Introduction
Achilles on Skyros: Becoming a Man in Ancient Greece
Achilles and Patroclus in Love?
Tears of Heroes
Sexual Violence on the Trojan Stage
Overview
6. The Fury Subdued: To Forget, To Forgive
Introduction
Agamemnon's guilt
Kissing Achilles' Hands
Achilles with no Shadows
Overview
7. The Death And Cult Of Achilles
Introduction
The Tradition of Achilles' Death in the Epic. Echoes of the "Homeric
Question"
Achilles' Heel, Achilles' Ankle: the Death of the Hero
Achilles in the Underworld. The Island of Leuke
The Cults of Achilles. Archaeological and Literary Evidence
Overview
8. Philosophical, Political and Ethical Debates
Introduction
Achilles and the tortoise
Not life but a good life. Achilles as model for Socrates
Healing anger
Justice and revenge
More hateful than the gates of Hades is the man who hides one thing in his
heart and says another
Overview
9. Achilles In Modern Literature In English
Introduction
When there was peace, before the coming of the sons of the Achaians (Il.
22.156)
Never More Shall a Second Grief thus Reach my Heart (Il. 23.45-46)
And laid his manslaughtering hands over the chest of his dear friend (Il.
23.18)
And kissed the hands that had killed so many of his sons (Il. 24. 478-479)
Overview
Further reading
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Why Achilles?
1. Introducing Achilles
A Mythological "Biography"?
Who is Achilles?
Evidence for Achilles
The Best of the Achaeans, Apollo's Antagonist
The Scope of this Book
Brief overview of each chapter
Key Themes
2. The Origins of The Trojan War, The Origin of Achilles
Introduction
The Origins of the Trojan War: Achilles and Helen
The Birth and Childhood of Achilles
Achilles' Teachers
Overview
3. A Men's World: Achilles' Emotions
Introduction
Emotions and scenarios of action
Achilles' anger as the Iliad's leitmotif
Achilles and Ajax. A shame culture
The Myrmidons
Overview
4. Achilles' Sacrificial Victims
Introduction
Ambush, Pursuit and Sacrifice of Troilus
Young Trojans on the Pyre of Patroclus
The Hawk Chasing a Dove: The Death of Hector
A Last Sacrifice in Honour of Achilles: Polyxena
Overview
5. Gender And Sexuality
Introduction
Achilles on Skyros: Becoming a Man in Ancient Greece
Achilles and Patroclus in Love?
Tears of Heroes
Sexual Violence on the Trojan Stage
Overview
6. The Fury Subdued: To Forget, To Forgive
Introduction
Agamemnon's guilt
Kissing Achilles' Hands
Achilles with no Shadows
Overview
7. The Death And Cult Of Achilles
Introduction
The Tradition of Achilles' Death in the Epic. Echoes of the "Homeric
Question"
Achilles' Heel, Achilles' Ankle: the Death of the Hero
Achilles in the Underworld. The Island of Leuke
The Cults of Achilles. Archaeological and Literary Evidence
Overview
8. Philosophical, Political and Ethical Debates
Introduction
Achilles and the tortoise
Not life but a good life. Achilles as model for Socrates
Healing anger
Justice and revenge
More hateful than the gates of Hades is the man who hides one thing in his
heart and says another
Overview
9. Achilles In Modern Literature In English
Introduction
When there was peace, before the coming of the sons of the Achaians (Il.
22.156)
Never More Shall a Second Grief thus Reach my Heart (Il. 23.45-46)
And laid his manslaughtering hands over the chest of his dear friend (Il.
23.18)
And kissed the hands that had killed so many of his sons (Il. 24. 478-479)
Overview
Further reading
Bibliography
Index