The Iliad as politics : the performance of political thought / Dean Hammer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammer, Dean, 1959-

Series:

Oklahoma series in classical culture ; v. 28.

Oklahoma series in classical culture ; v. 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homer. Iliad.

Homer.

Politics and literature--Greece--History--To 1500.

Politics and literature.

Political poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Political poetry, Greek.

Political science--Greece--History--To 500.

Political science.

Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Achilles (Mythological character)--In literature.

Achilles.

Trojan War--Literature and the war.

Trojan War.

Homer--Political and social views.

Achilles (Mythological character).

Iliad (Homer).

Literature.

Political and social views.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 294 pages).

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©2002.

Summary:

"Wily Odysseus. Bold Achilles. Brave Hektor. Beautiful Helen of Troy. For centuries, people around the world have been fascinated by these figures and their tragic war as recounted in Homer's Iliad, long admired and studied as one of the foremost epic poems of the ancient world. In The Iliad as Politics, Dean Hammer revisits this epic with a new perspective." "In this first full-length treatment of the Iliad as a work of political thought, Hammer demonstrates how Homer's epic is also an ancient Greek discussion on political ethics. Hammer redefines political thought as the activity of addressing issues of collective identity and organization. Using this understanding of politics, he discusses how the characters in the Iliad, through their larger-than-life actions and interactions, embody community issues of authority, conflict, judgment, and the interrelationship between personal and collective identity. The characters' many quarrels, laments, reconciliations, and vows of loyalty and friendship all critically model the principles and controversies of underlying Greek political ethics of communal responsibility and relationship."

Contents:

Political fields

Human agency and the divine

Power, force, and authority

Self-sufficiency

Elite relations

Leaders and led

Toward a political ethic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-279) and indexes.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hammer, Dean, 1959- Iliad as politics.

ISBN:

0806180048

9780806180045

OCLC:

61104141

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