Kleos in a minor key : the Homeric education of a little prince / J.C.B. Petropoulos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petropoulos, J. C. B., author.

Contributor:

Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C.)

Series:

Hellenic studies ; 45.

Hellenic studies ; 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homer. Odyssey.

Homer.

Homer--Characters--Telemachus.

Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Telemachus (Mythological character)--In literature.

Telemachus.

Princes in literature.

Glory in literature.

Maturation (Psychology) in literature.

Education of princes in literature.

Fathers and sons in literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 171 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Center for Hellenic Studies, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

As scholars have remarked, the word kleos in the Iliad and the Odyssey alike refers to something more substantive and complex than 'fame' or 'glory'. In the Odyssey, 'glory' may be ascribed to a hero or even a heroine for far more reasons than in the Iliad. Either way, kleos distinctly supposes an oral narrativeûprincipally an 'oral history', a 'life story' or ultimately an 'oral tradition'. When broken down into its twin constituents, 'words' and 'actions' or 'deeds', a hero's kleos serves to define him as a fully gendered social being. This book is a meditation on this concept as expressed and experienced in the adult society Telemachos finds himself in. Kleos is the yardstick by which his psychological change, nowadays acknowledged by most specialists, was appreciated by Homer's audiences. As this book shows through philological and interdisciplinary analysis, Prince Telemachos grows up in the course of the Telemachy and arguably even beyond (in book 24): his education, which is conceived largely as an apprenticeship on land and sea, admits him gradually if unevenly to a Full-fledged adult kleos, a kleos that nonetheless necessarily remains minor in comparison to that of his father and other elders. --Book Jacket.

Contents:

Kleos and oral history

Kleos and oral news

Kleos and social identity

The little prince's voyage in a borrowed ship

Of beards and boar hunts, or, coming of age in the Odyssey

The end of the telemachy: the culmination of extinction?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Petropoulos, J. C. B. Kleos in a minor key.

OCLC:

944075818