The power of Thetis and selected essays / by Laura M. Slatkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slatkin, Laura M., author.

Contributor:

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

Series:

Hellenic studies ; 16.

Hellenic studies ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homer. Iliad.

Homer.

Thetis (Mythological character)--In literature.

Thetis.

Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Trojan War--Literature and the war.

Trojan War.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 238 pages).

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I. The power of Thetis: Allusion and interpretation in the Iliad. Preface ; Introduction ; The helplessness of Thetis ; The power of Thetis ; The wrath of Thetis ; Allusion and interpretation

Part II Essays. Theban Traces at Troy ; Les Amis Mortels ; Composition by theme and the Mêtis of the Odyssey ; Genre and generation in the Odyssey ; The poetics of exchange in the Iliad ; Measuring authority, authoritative measures: Hesiod's Works and days ; Remembering Nicole Loraux remembering Athens.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Slatkin, Laura M. Power of Thetis and selected essays.

OCLC:

944187722