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The Iliad and the Odyssey : the Trojan War: tragedy and aftermath/ Jan Parker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parker, Jan (Janet Elaine), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homer. Iliad.
- Homer.
- Homer. Odyssey.
- Trojan War.
- Iliad (Homer).
- Odyssey (Homer).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Barnsley : Pen & Sword Military, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Iliad
- Introduction: Exploring the Iliad
- Layers
- Origins
- Heroes and warfare: recognition and disturbance
- The story
- Warp and weft
- Book 1 The Wrath of Achilles
- Book 2 The Greek and Trojan Forces
- Book 3 Helen in Troy: Paris and Menelaus Fight for Her
- Book 4 Battle is Joined
- Book 5 Diomedes' Day of Pre-eminence
- Book 6 Inside Troy's Citadel: Hecuba, Hektor and Andromache
- Book 7 Hektor's Challenge
- Book 8 The Trojans Attack the Greeks' Final Defences
- Book 9 Agamemnon's Embassy to Beg Achilles to Return to the Fighting
- Book 10 A Night Raid
- Book 11 The Greek Leaders in Last-ditch Fighting
- Book 12 Hektor and Sarpedon Pre-eminent
- Book 13 Menelaus, Odysseus, Ajax and Idomeneus; Epitaphs for their Victims
- Book 14 Among the Gods; Hera Tricks Zeus
- Book 15 Hektor Takes the Fight to the Greek Ships; Patroclus' Distress
- Book 16 Patroclus Fights in Achilles' Armour: Tragic Deaths of Sarpedon and Patroclus
- Book 17 The Fight over Patroclus' Body
- Book 18 Hephaistos Forges Achilles' New Armour
- Book 19 This Time it's Personal: Achilles Re-enters the Battle
- Book 20 Achilles Rages
- Book 21 Achilles is Remorseless: Suppliants and Victims
- Book 22 The Final Battle: Achilles v Hektor
- Book 23 Achilles Arbitrates over Patroclus' Funeral Games
- Book 24 The End of the Story of Achilles' Rage
- Heroic Values, Heroic Psychology
- Heroic Bonds: Hektor, aidos and the Wrath of Achilles
- pt. II The Odyssey
- Introduction: The Journey Home from War
- Books 1
- 4 Overview: Waiting for Odysseus
- Telemachus and Penelope at home in Ithaca
- Telemachus in Nestor's Palace
- Telemachus at the court of Menelaus and Helen
- Back in Ithaca: the suitors
- Books 5
- 7 Overview: From Calypso to Phaeacia
- Calypso
- Nausicaa
- Odysseus at the court of King Alkinous and Queen Arete
- Who are you? What is your story?
- Book 8 Odysseus and the Divine Bard, Songs of Gods and Trojan War Heroes; the Effect
- Responding to the bard
- Books 9
- 12 Overview: Odysseus' Stories
- The Cicones, the Lotus Eaters, the Cyclops
- The bag of winds, the Laestrygonian cannibals
- Circe
- The Underworld: revenge and judgment
- The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis
- Books 13
- 14 Odysseus Returns to Ithaca: Disguise and Lying Tales
- Odysseus as `master storyteller of grace, order and understanding'
- With Eumaeus the swineherd
- Book 15 Telemachus Returns: the Swineherd's Story
- Book 16 Father and Son
- Book 17 Odysseus at the Hall
- Book 18 Odysseus, Penelope and the Suitors
- Book 19 Odysseus in Disguise Tests the Suitors: Penelope is Intrigued
- Book 20 Odysseus: Testing and Recognition
- Book 21 The Trial of the Bow of Odysseus
- Book 22 Odysseus' Vengeance
- Book 23 Odysseus and Penelope: Recognition and Reunion
- Book 24 Completing Stories
- Afterstories: Agamemnon and Achilles in the Underworld
- Odysseus and Laertes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781526779939
- 1526779935
- OCLC:
- 1255887024
- Publisher Number:
- 99989843379
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