| The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays Contributor(s): Slatkin, Laura M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674021436 ISBN-13: 9780674021433 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $18.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2009 Annotation: includes a study of the Hesiodic Catalog of Women and reflections on particular heroes, such as Diomedes and Odysseus. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical |
| Dewey: 883.01 |
| LCCN: 2010049330 |
| Series: Hellenic Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6" W x 9" (0.75 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Laura Slatkin's influential and widely admired book, here published in a second edition together with six additional essays, explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the Iliad. Highly charged allusions reverberate through the narrative and establish a constellation of themes that link the poem to other traditions. Slatkin uncovers alternative traditions about the power of Thetis and shows how an awareness of those myths brings a far greater understanding of Thetis's place in the thematic structure of the Iliad. The six additional essays included in this volume--some of them classics, some never before published--cover a broad range of topics in the study of the Greek Epic: the workings of genre in Hesiod and Homer; the poetics of exchange; and the nature of enmity and friendship. The volume also includes a study of the Hesiodic Catalog of Women and reflections on particular heroes, such as Diomedes and Odysseus. |
Contributor Bio(s): Slatkin, Laura M.: - Laura Slatkin is Professor of Classical Studies at New York University's Gallatin School and Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago. |