| The Suitors in the Odyssey: The Clash between Homer and Archilochus Contributor(s): Pucci, Pietro (Other), Steinrück, Martin (Author) |
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ISBN: 143310475X ISBN-13: 9781433104756 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $93.06 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Ancient Languages (see Also Latin) - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 883.01 |
| LCCN: 2008036483 |
| Series: Hermeneutic Commentaries, |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.86 lbs) 154 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The suitors in the Odyssey strikingly resemble a very specific audience of iambic poets such as Archilochus or Semonides. Justifying these young men's deaths, the Odyssey engages in a polemic intertext with Archilochus' attacks against the threatening epic discourse. This study is concerned with reading both the traces of this often hidden quarrel in the Odyssey and the answers we can find within the iambic texts. Although iambus and epos have been connected in earlier studies, the direct portrait of the iambic audience within the Odyssey has not been examined. This book allows the reader to see these issues in the larger social context. |