The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the Odyssey - Loney, Alexander C
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The first in-depth examination of revenge in the Odyssey, this book provides a careful analysis of the several revenge plots in the Odyssey ¿ above all, of Odysseus' revenge on the suitors. It argues that Odysseus is an ambivalent hero and that revenge is an unstable organizing principle.

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The first in-depth examination of revenge in the Odyssey, this book provides a careful analysis of the several revenge plots in the Odyssey ¿ above all, of Odysseus' revenge on the suitors. It argues that Odysseus is an ambivalent hero and that revenge is an unstable organizing principle.
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Alexander C. Loney is Associate Professor of Classical Languages at Wheaton College. Previously, he was an American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow in Classics and a fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. He has written on Homer, Hesiod, and Greek lyric poetry. He is co-editor (with Stephen Scully) of the Oxford Handbook of Hesiod.