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The ancient Greek hero in 24 hours / Gregory Nagy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nagy, Gregory.
- 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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