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The ancient Greek hero in 24 hours / Gregory Nagy.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Nagy, Gregory.
Contributor:
Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C.)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Greek literature--History and criticism.
Greek literature.
Heroes in literature.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 727 pages) : illustrations
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
The Homeric Iliad and the Glory of the Unseasonal Hero
Achilles as Epic Hero and the Idea of Total Recall in Song
Achilles and the Poetics of Lament
Achilles as Lyric Hero in the Songs of Sappho and Pindar
When Mortals Become 'Equal' to Immortals: Death of a Hero, Death of a Bridegroom
Patroklos as the Other Self of Achilles
The Sign of the Hero in Visual and Verbal Art
The Psychology of the Hero's Sign in the Homeric Iliad
The Return of Odysseus in the Homeric Odyssey
The Mind of Odysseus in the Homeric Odyssey
Blessed are the Heroes: the Cult Hero in Homeric Poetry and Beyond
The Cult Hero as an Exponent of Justice in Homeric Poetry and Beyond
A Crisis in Reading the World of Heroes
Longing for a Hero: a Retrospective
What the Hero 'Means'
Heroic Aberration in the Agamemnon od Aeschylus
Looking Beyond the Cult Hero in the Libation Bearers and the Eumenides of Aeschylus
Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus and the Power of the Cult Hero in Death
Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Heroic Pollution
The Hero as Mirror of Men's and Women's Experiences in the Hippolytus of Euripides
The Hero's Agony in the Bacchae of Euripides
The Living Word I: Socrates in Plato's Apology of Socrates
The Living Word II: More on Plato's Socrates in the Phaedo
The Hero as Savior.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Other Format:
Print version: Nagy, Gregory. Ancient Greek hero in 24 hours.
ISBN:
9780674075429
0674075420
OCLC:
847526709
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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