Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society - Oath-Making Rituals in the Iliad

Informationen zum Autor Margo Kitts is Professor and Coordinator, Religious Studies and East-West Classical Studies, Department of History, Humanities, and International Studies at Hawai'i Pacific University in Honolulu, USA. Klappentext In Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society, Margo Kitts focuses on oath-making narratives found in the Iliad through which she articulates a theory of ritualized violence. She analyzes ritual paradigms, metaphors, fictions, and poetic registers as oath-making principles, which she then traces through Homeric references and texts from the ancient New East. Discussing ritual features that are common to acts of religious violence throughout the world, Kitts makes use of the theory of ritual performance as communication. Zusammenfassung In this book! Margo Kitts focuses on oath-making narratives found in the Iliad through which she articulates a theory of ritualized violence. She analyzes ritual paradigms! metaphors! fictions! and poetic registers as oath-making principles! which she traces through Homeric references and texts from the ancient New East. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: why another treatment of Greek sacrifice?; 1. Epics, rituals, and rituals in epic: methodological considerations; 2. Premises and principles of oath-making in the Iliad; 3. Ritual scenes and epic themes of oath-sacrifice; 4. Homeric battlefield theophanies, in light of the ancient Near East; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Kitts, Margo Kitts, Margo (Iowa State University) Kitts, Kitts Margo
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.08.2012
• EAN: 9780521174244
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17424-4
• No. of pages: 258
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; HISTORY / General, Religion & beliefs, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Religion and beliefs, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets