Alexander C Loney

The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the Odyssey

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780190909673
• ISBN-10: 0190909676
• Artikelnr.: 54469613

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The Archaic Context of Vengeance
2 Vengeance in the Odyssey: Tisis As Narrative
3 Three Narratives of Divine Vengeance
4 Odysseus' Terrifying Revenge
5 The Multiple Meanings of Odysseus' Triumphs
6 The End of the Odyssey
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index