ISBN: 9780691044392

This wide-ranging collection makes available to specialists and nonspecialists alike important critical work on the Odyssey produced during the last half century. The ten essays address f… More...

This wide-ranging collection makes available to specialists and nonspecialists alike important critical work on the Odyssey produced during the last half century. The ten essays address five major concerns: the poem's programmatic representation of social and religious institutions and values; its transformation of folktales and traditional stories into epic adventures; its representation of gender roles and, in particular, of Penelope; its narrative strategies and form; and its relation to the Iliad, especially to that epic's distinctive conception of heroism.In the introduction, Seth L. Schein describes the poetic background to the work and suggests a variety of interpretive approaches, some of which are developed in the essays that follow. These essays include previously published work by Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Pietro Pucci, and Charles P. Segal. There also are a new essay by Laura M. Slatkin, two revised and expanded ones by Nancy Felson-Rubin and Michael N. Nagler, and three appearing in English for the first time by Uvo Hlscher, Karl Reinhardt, and Vernant. The result is a collection that juxtaposes older, often hard-to-find articles with significant newer pieces in a way that allows for a fruitful dialogue among them. Media > Book, [PU: Princeton University Press]<

1996, ISBN: 9780691044392

Princeton, University Press, XII, 278 Seiten / p. 15,6 x 1,7 x 23,4 cm, Broschiert / Paperback. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des Inte… More...

Princeton, University Press, XII, 278 Seiten / p. 15,6 x 1,7 x 23,4 cm, Broschiert / Paperback. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- SETH L. SCHEIN -- Land and Sacrifice in the Odyssey. A Study of Religious and -- Mythical Meanings -- PIERRE VIDAL-NAQUET -- Death with Two Faces -- JEAN-PIERRE VERNANT -- The Adventures in the Odyssey -- KARL REINHARDT -- Penelope and the Suitors -- UVO HÖLSCHER -- Dread Goddess Revisited -- MICHAEL N. NAGLER -- Penelope?s Perspective: Character from Plot -- NANCY FELSON-RUBIN -- The Refusal of Odysseus -- JEAN-PIERRE VERNANT -- The Song of the Sirens -- PIETRO PUCCI -- Kleos and Its Ironies in the Odyssey -- CHARLES SEGAL -- Composition by Theme and the Metis of the Odyssey -- LAURA M. SLATKIN. ISBN 9780691044392Klassische Philologie 1996, [PU: Princeton University Press]<